Latest about Marine Mammals
Dolphins terrorize and bite beachgoers in Japan — for the 2nd year in a row
Four separate incidents on a beach in Fukui prefecture on July 16 echo a string of attacks in the same region last year that may have been perpetrated by a single Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin.
Dolphins and orcas have passed the evolutionary point of no return to live on land again
Scientists have discovered that once a mammal has become fully aquatic, it passes a threshold that makes a return to terrestrial landscapes almost impossible.
Fears that dead 60-foot-long whale in Ireland could explode sends experts scrambling
Experts abandoned the autopsy of a dead fin whale after they heard bubbling noises from the creature's gut, indicating there was a chance it could explode if opened.
$500,000 chunk of 'floating gold' found in dead whale
The huge chunk of ambergris was found lodged inside the sperm whale — and scientists believe it ruptured its intestine, causing its death and subsequent beaching in La Palma.
'An enormous mass of flesh armed with teeth': How orcas gained their 'killer' reputation
From Pliny the Elder to the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, historians and naturalists have found many ways to describe these fascinating apex predators.
White Gladis the orca may have been pregnant when she started attacking boats
White Gladis was so hellbent on stopping boats in the Strait of Gibraltar that she engaged in attacks instead of protecting her newborn calf.
Orca rams boat off Scottish coast, 2,000 miles away from original attacks
The behavior may be "leapfrogging" between orca populations, and it could be in response to human activities such as fishing.
Mystery orcas with bulbous heads wash up dead in unexplained mass stranding
The nine Type D orcas were found on a beach in Chile, with a necropsy of one female showing it was a healthy adult, with no signs of human involvement in its death.
