Oceans and Wildlife

In the water, penguins can swim with agility and ease - but this ability might have cost these creatures the power of flight

Mark Rayor has lived in Baja California's East Cape region for more than 15 years, guiding sportfishing and diving trips. He has seen plenty. But on Monday morning, Rayor was visited by a pod of cetaceans that he could not positively identify.

Major US TV channels are promoting hysterical and outdated ideas about wildlife in popular, blood-soaked shows

The U.S. federal agency that oversees offshore oil exploration will analyze the effects of noisy underwater seismic blasts on whales and dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico.

Its good to see the press are still ready to question commercial whaling.

Bob Irwin, father to crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, has visited the Sea Shepherd's flagship named after his son.

Jellyfish predators, such as tuna and sea turtles, are disappearing due to overfishing. However, jellyfish are primarily taking advantage of the overfishing of small pelagic fish.

Whale & Dolphin Weekly, by Nic Slocum: Nic Slocum's round-up of marine mammal news around the globe.

The European Commission (EC) has notified the Faroe Islands that it plans to take steps, including closing off fishing ports, to support the sustainability of herring fisheries shared between the two parties. This notification is a preliminary step meant to give the Faroe Islands a chance to respond before measures are implemented and was prompted by the Faroes’ massive and autonomously set quota for 2013.

In May 2012, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major Tara Thean '13 received the Becky Colvin Memorial Award from the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Colvin family. That summer, the Colvin funds supported her research examining the signature whistles of dolphins and how their unique form of communication might inform the understanding of animal communication in general. Her thesis title is "Signature Whistle Models in Bottlenose Dolphins, Tursiops truncatus."

A FISH farm worker has been hailed a hero after single-handedly saving two dolphins from dying on a beach.

Steve Trent and the EJF have armed local fishermen with cell phones and training so they can defend their waters from illegal fishing.

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Thursday it will consider listing a population of harbor seals that live in a freshwater Alaska lake as a threatened or endangered species, a decision that could affect the massive Pebble Mine development project.

Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the world’s oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable shellfish. However, new research shows this approach to be extremely risky.

A case of mistaken identity for sharks found in Northern Territory waters could be preventing the conservation of some species from environmental change.

We know whales and dolphins are intelligence, but new research is revealing how clever they really are.

India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment anywhere in the country.

North Atlantic right whales ordinarily give birth in the balmy waters of Florida and Georgia but in January a whale named Wart gave birth in the cold waters of Cape Cod Bay. We check in to see how Wart and her baby fared since then.

The number of seabirds recorded washed up on beaches in two incidents along the English Channel, covered in polyisobutene (PIB), has now passed 4,000. Leading wildlife conservation and animal welfare charities and the UK Chamber of Shipping, supported by the wider industry body MaritimeUK, have come together as a single voice to call for an urgent review of the hazard classification status of PIB.

Since 2000, the Cascadia Research Collective has conducted extensive studies, covering more than 46,000 miles of survey track lines around the main Hawaiian Islands, and have documented more than 1,700 sightings of 18 different species of toothed whales and dolphins.

The Sei whale is distinguished by faint grey blotches on its skin just around the dorsal fin.Hunted almost to extinction, it is now estimated that there are around 80,000 left worldwide. Japan is one of the few countries that still hunt these mammals despite them being an endangered species.

The protection afforded to blue whales in New Zealand waters may need to be increased, now a study has found they may be more regular visitors to the South Taranaki Bight than previously

On 9 June 2008, the UK's largest mass stranding event (MSE) of short-beaked common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) occurred in Falmouth Bay, Cornwall. At least 26 dolphins died, and a similar number was refloated/herded back to sea.

100 million sharks are disappearing from our oceans each year, primarily driven by the lucrative trade in shark fins. A bill that would prohibit the sale and consumption of shark fins in Texas, passed the Texas House.

A new analysis by the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the University of Western Australia concluded that in 2010, shark-related diving contributed $42.2 million ($73 million Fijian) to the economy of Fiji.