If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world ...

The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications.

The ocean is anything but quiet with animals making a variety of unique sounds, but what happens when the ocean gets too loud ...

All three sperm whales stranded off the northern coast of Prince Edward Island have died, a marine rescue organization says. Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, has ...

American space behemoth Northrop Grumman is working with private space company Firefly Aerospace to make a new medium-lift rocket called Eclipse.

PORTLAND, Maine — A man pleaded guilty this week to trafficking whale and bird parts in violation of federal wildlife laws. Sergey Bachkovsky. of Green, Maine, admitted in U.S. District Court that ...

Researchers are working to better understand a “silent” threat to whale sharks—ship collisions. Fishermen’s lights in Djibouti attract plankton and a young whale shark to the water’s surface, where ...

Conservation and science meet style with a side of tech when it comes to conducting research on whales and dolphins through a collaboration between FIU and a private company. Fahlo’s co-founders, ...

Large whales can get wrapped up in fishing lines, buoys, nets and other gear, which can lead to injuries and death. Aleria Jensen / NOAA The number of large whales that became entangled in fishing ...

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