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In some whales, males compete for access to mates, but the advantage of being big may be more consistent for females.

The winners of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year competition captured the ocean and its wildlife like you’ve never seen ...

A new scientific study has revealed a worrying rise in baleen whale strandings along India’s southwest coast, pointing to ...

THE NUMBER OF LARGE WHALE entanglements off U.S. coasts jumped sharply in 2024, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported last week.

According to a new report by NOAA Fisheries, the number of large whale entanglements recorded by the agency in 2024 was ...

Afloat.ie is Ireland's only full-time marine journalism team and it takes time, money and hard work to produce our content.

The U.S. Large Whale Entanglement Response Network, made up of federal, state, tribal and nonprofit experts, responds to ...

Yuri Ivanov – Ocean Photographer of the YearIndonesia-based macro expert, Yury Ivanov has been named Ocean Photographer of ...

The winning and commended images from this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition, presented by Oceanographic ...

A spellbinding image of two tiny but vibrant “ladybugs of the sea” has won the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 award.

Researchers claimed that the ancestors of whales were once land-dwelling predators who often hunted, just like wolves. PBS Eons shared a video in August 2022, which revealed this unexpected connection ...