With its cartilaginous body and cold blood, the whale shark is decidedly not a whale. But this shark is about as long as a humpback and just as gentle. So gentle, in fact, that tours to dive with ...

None has ever been seen alive at sea ... whales. But researchers studying the mammal couldn’t confirm whether the species was extinct until 2010, when two whole spade-toothed whales, both dead ...

Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species ... washed up dead on a New Zealand beach in July — is the first ever to take place. None has ever been seen alive at sea. The list of what ...

Whale and Dolphin Conservation, a marine advocacy group who's North American headquarters is in Plymouth, received a report through its stranding hotline of a dead whale floating offshore in ...

Marine biologists are investigating what caused two dead ... humpback whale. Samples collected from the minke whale are also being tested. Minke whales are a federally protected species that ...

In 2018, the endangered orca known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf for at least ... behavior in at least six other species of dolphins and whales, according to a 2016 study in ...

While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a ...