The rope that the fishermen severed was free-floating — as is common with creel gear. Because the rope is loose, it forms loops underwater that can ensnare whales. “The Scotti ...

Peer-reviewed research by Hebrew University and Edinburgh University experts suggests such patterns might also shape sounds ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool has been developed to predict the habitat of endangered whales, helping to reduce deadly ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

If recent reports of a North Atlantic right whale calf and its mother spotted in a busy shipping lane between New Jersey and New York are any indication that more are to come, an artificial ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will help predict ...

The video of the whale had people rethinking how they see the animal with some vowing to never go in the ocean ...

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...