The world's top wildlife trade organization increased protections on Friday for more than 70 species of sharks and rays, in a ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to understand sperm whale vocalizations. Lawyers think the discoveries may ...

A limited necropsy of a 52-ton sperm whale that washed up on Nantucket was conducted Nov. 21. What was found, and where were ...

Nowhere in the ocean is now left untouched by a type of "forever chemicals" called "per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances," ...

Life is rarely solitary, yet some beings exist in extreme biological isolation. From a lone, ancient tree in Bahrain's desert ...

Scientists have also spotted an endangered bramble shark off the UAE coast, a sign of success for local conservation efforts and coral reef regeneration programmes. Dozens of new coral reefs have been ...

This gave rise to Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a 50-plus-person team of marine biologists, A.I. experts, ...

The sharks and rays are widely hunted, their parts used in commercial products like makeup and moisturizers and in culinary delicacies.

Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the ...

Species feeding mid-water were just as exposed to PFAS as coastal Māui dolphins or deep-diving species like beaked whales, ...

Mark Rowe investigates the surge in whale strandings along Scotland’s coast — a warning sign, scientists say, of deeper ...