After years of failed searches, one of the planet’s rarest whales has finally been spotted in the wild. The race to encounter the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whales began back in 2020 after ...

A recently published study adds more scientific weight to a claim the Trump administration is trying to discredit: The Rice’s ...

Windsurfing is an extreme sport for a reason. The recreational activity combines sailing and surfing at high speed. What's more, it's usually considered fun, but also super dangerous when performed in ...

Since 2008, rules requiring ships to slow down to avoid collisions with North Atlantic right whales have reduced fatalities of the critically endangered animals. Now, NOAA is calling the regulations ...

SEATTLE — The endangered killer whales of the Pacific Northwest live very different lives from orcas in captivity. They swim up to 100 miles (161 kilometers) a day in pursuit of salmon, instead of ...

The Kruzof stranding wasn’t the only one this summer. A second beaked whale was found beached in Yakutat in early June.

AWI has been collaborating with Norway’s largest animal welfare group, NOAH, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) to oppose a dangerous experiment on wild minke whales that was to begin in late ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Whale & Dolphin Conservation (WDC), Cetacean Society International (CSI), and Earth Island Institute (EII) today filed their joint response to ...

The scene unfolded in San Francisco Bay. Windsurfer in San Francisco Bay collides with a surfacing whale, caught on video. Both windsurfer and whale were unharmed after the unexpected collision.