While orcas, also known as "killer whales," are a common sight in the northeast Pacific Ocean, they’re rarely detected in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, where little is understood about pods that swim ...

The director of science and conservation for Save the Manatee Club writes that amendments being considered to the federal ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Local students interested in marine sciences should take advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The University of Hawaii’s Summer Marine Mammal Intensive Learning Experience ...

RYE — The Ocean Genome Legacy Center of Northeastern University and the Seacoast Science Center Marine Mammal Rescue team have announced a new partnership aimed at enhancing our understanding of the ...

The team observed a pod of 10 orcas around two humpback whales. The whales were agitated, and the team initially thought the orcas were testing to see if either whale was weak. But when they reviewed ...

A California photographer captured a whale breaching in San Francisco Bay Friday afternoon between the Golden Gate Bridge and ...

Researchers have identified the fossil of a rare extinct marine mammal in Japan for the first time, shedding light on the climate-driven Miocene epoch spanning roughly 23 million to 10 million years ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — A dozen Hawaiʻi high school students interested in marine mammal science are getting a hands-on lesson Summer 2023. The students from Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Maui are taking part ...

Take a dive into the museum’s marine mammal collection and learn how a rare North American whale is racing against extinction Emma Saaty This plate of baleen came from the critically endangered Rice’s ...

The threat of extinction is becoming all too real for the mammals that live in our oceans, but one unfortunate species takes the top spot as closest to that danger: vaquitas. With less than 10 left on ...

WASHINGTON (TND) — A new study published in the in the journal of marine mammal science is shedding new light on the potential sexual preferences of non-human mammals. In the article for "Marine ...

Opinion: Survival is not recovery. A manatee population that merely survives may be unhealthy, vulnerable and unable to rebound.