The California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that commercial and recreational Dungeness crab fishers can no longer use conventional traps in parts of the California coast.

Three mystery whales have been surprising whale watchers from Canada to Olympia. When somebody gets the thrill of seeing an orca in Northwest waters, that whale is almost always well known. Scientists ...

MSC Cruises partners with ORCA to advance Alaskan whale protection through marine research, crew training, and science-led cruise operations.

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, inexperienced target guarded by a single adult. However, orcas cannot reach ...

Two groups of killer whales are engaging in a terrifying, bloody cannibalistic war beneath the ocean’s surface, where gangs ...

A killer whale was filmed delivering a high-speed strike to a giant ocean sunfish during a rare underwater hunt in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Wildlife videographer Evans Baudin captured the moment ...

A dolphin murder mystery is playing out on Patagonia’s shores: multiple mass strandings, with scores of dolphins washing up for no easily discernable reason. In one such event in 2021, for example, 52 ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called resident orcas, stay in such large family groups ...

For about three decades, beluga whales and bottlenose dolphins greeted more than a million annual visitors to Marineland of Canada. In the sprawling 162-hectare (400-acre) theme park, located a ...

In 2021 and 2023, hundreds of dolphins were stranded in shallow waters in San Antonio Bay in northern Patagonia. Some died, but many were returned safely to the sea. But what remained a mystery until ...

Once you’ve explored Europe’s grand cities, turn your attention to its untamed landscapes, where you’ll find secluded coves, electric-blue rivers and jaw-dropping mountains ...