A bill in the works has support from Maine fishermen and lobbyists for big-money species such as tuna in Hawaiʻi and crab in ...

A cornerstone U.S. law that has protected whales, seals, and polar bears for over 50 years is under threat as Republican ...

Scientists have proven a mammal that was believed to be a whale subspecies is actually a new species entirely, and the new species is critically endangered. Researchers took a closer look at the ...

Most people are lucky to simply get a glimpse of some fragment of a whale. A subtle puff of mist over the horizon, the curve ...

Whales are the giants of the ocean. These amazing creatures live in seas and oceans all around the world. Some travel ...

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has ...

The world's population of North Atlantic right whales has been decimated in recent years by human-caused vessel strikes and rope entanglements, and now another member of this rare species faces the ...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law credited with saving rare whales - One of the US.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation is the subject of an effort for cutbacks ...

The body of the world's second largest type of whale has washed up on a beach. Beachgoers at Cefn Sidan, in Carmarthenshire, contacted Marine Environmental Monitoring on Monday, with reports of a very ...

Conservation groups adamantly oppose the changes and say weakening the law will erase years of hard-won gains for jeopardized species such as the vanishing North Atlantic right whale ...