The Pentagon increasingly sees the Pacific as its most important theater of operations as tensions brew between the U.S. and ...

The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions ...

HB 994 bans the purchase and sales of products from at-risk and endangered animals. The list of animals covered under this bill include the baleen whale, bonobo, cheetah, chimpanzee, dolphin, elephant ...

A nimals using tools is always a pretty cool facet of their behavior, from monkeys cracking nuts to elephants sabotaging ...

In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest were recorded rubbing stalks of kelp against each other’s bodies, a study shows.

We were amazed when we first noticed this behavior,” said Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research in the U.S. state of Washington. What started as a puzzling observation in ...

This included a sperm whale, Risso's dolphins and common dolphins. Louisa Casson, Greenpeace International senior campaigner, said: "The confirmed presence of cetaceans, including threatened sperm ...

Deep-sea mining in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean could harm ocean life including whales and dolphins, new research shows ...

Killer whales have been caught on video breaking off pieces of seaweed to rub and groom each other, scientists announced ...

Reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on June 23, a team of whale experts has found widespread tool manufacture and usage in an endangered population of resident killer whales living ...

From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the ...

The orcas clearly liked this activity because different whales were recorded preparing the stems eight times and rolling the ...