Whales
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Scientists hope new information will help protect the little-understood whale population that feeds and travels through the city’s waters
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Orcas exist in every ocean, adapting to different conditions and diets. Genome sequencing has allowed insights into their evolution - and similarity to humans
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The oceanographic explorer and son of Jacques Cousteau has indirectly challenged embattled marine park’s claims that no orca has survived release
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Sale of 1.57kg lump of ambergris they found while walking along beach near Morecambe Bay could earn pair £50,000
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Video captured from the Greenwich cable car over the river Thames on Wednesday appears to show a mysterious large shadow in the water, which resembles a large sea creature
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Whale experts discover orca they know as Comet is same killer whale that swam into Northern Irish city nearly 40 years ago
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The records will include data on behavior, reproductive success, and skin diseases and will be used to monitor individual health as well as overall trends
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Thirteen sperm whales stranded on the German coast had ingested huge amounts of plastic. They are symbolic of our shocking disregard for marine life
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The Obama administration is to allow surveying of the seabed using seismic airguns that have been likened to a ‘grenade blast’ for whales and other creatures
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People protest at Marineland in Antibes against conditions that killer whales are kept in following deaths in storm last year
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Living as a goat? It makes a change from being human
Philip HoareIt’s tempting to dismiss stories of people trying to turn themselves into deer and badgers as eccentricity, but there’s a deeper impulse at work -
Director of country’s biggest whaling company says his fleet will not be hunting this season because of problems exporting the meat to Japan
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The heads of animal safety and theme park operations are changing, announced SeaWorld chief executive, as outcry over whale treatment prompted brand shift
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Scientists from the UK’s Cetacean Strandings Investigation team are trying to determine the cause of the biggest mass stranding in a century
Dead whale towed off California beach and back to sea after big stink