North Atlantic right whales have reduced in size by 1m since the 1980s when aerial tracking began, say experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in California.

Until SETI bears fruit for humankind, let us not forget our peers who ply the seas. Back in the 19th century the cachelot became the cache-little, and evidence for the decline was hidden away in captain’s logs ’til now. More astonishingly is how these grand beasts, like the Knights of the Round Table, knew to […]

Members of the public first noticed some of the whales on the beach between Tunstall and Withernsea, East Yorkshire on Christmas Eve morning.

Officials are blaming killer whales on the vanishing population of great white sharks along Cape Town’s coast. Experts say sightings have dwindled over the years to none at all in 2019.

Sydney photographer Daniel Cook, 43, filmed two Bryde’s whales (one pictured) riding waves with surfers to propel them into a school of bait fish at Seven Mile Beach near Lennox Head.

Authorities have confirmed that a total of more than 470 of the marine creatures were discovered off Tasmania’s west coast. Only 50 whales have been successfully coxed back into the open ocean.

Rescuers are racing to save the survivors of a group of 270 whales beached off Tasmania's west coast.

Police and wildlife authorities were alerted to the pod, believed to be pilot whales, at Macquarie Harbour near Strahan off Tasmania’a coast on Monday morning.