With its cartilaginous body and cold blood, the whale shark is decidedly not a whale. But this shark is about as long as a humpback and just as gentle. So gentle, in fact, that tours to dive with ...

While men fell to bullets and bombs everywhere, the world’s longest venomous snake ever recorded was also caught in the ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

In rare video footage, a male whale shark has been spotted biting at his female partner during courtship. Before now, we knew very little about the secret sex lives of the world's largest fish ...

In 2019, the federal government passed an anti-captivity law that made it illegal to import and keep killer whales captive ... years to find out what are the biggest factors in wildfire severity.

Public pressure is growing on authorities to humanely rehabilitate two former performing orcas, following the closure of a ...

These regulations ban the use of dolphins and whales in performances, which traditionally accounted for 90% of the park’s visitor revenue ...

Wikie and Keijo, the two remaining captive orcas in France, are set to move soon, but if that move is to a sanctuary is still undecided Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Phillips is working to help two other whales in captivity at a closed marine park in France Animal lovers are fighting to move killer whales Wikie and Keijo to a sea sanctuary in Canada After ...

ANTIBES (AFP) – A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving uncertain futures for the two last orcas in captivity in ...

The two orcas -- also known as killer whales -- themselves face an uncertain ... the 2013 documentary film "Blackfish" denouncing the captivity of cetaceans and the Covid pandemic.