At the time, the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries said orcas have been photographed off the North Carolina coast, ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species. There ...

Aerial footage showing the close association between blue whale mother and calf, in the South Taranaki Bight, New Zealand. Credit: Leigh Torres/ Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Laboratory (GEMM ...

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Lawyers for the environmental groups argued approving the expansion would threaten to push the southern resident killer whales to extinction. The most recent analysis from Fisheries and Oceans ...

Canada’s federal cabinet has declined a recommendation from two ministers to issue an emergency order that would protect endangered southern resident killer whales off the coast of British Columbia.