Despite decades of environmental change and population recovery, eastern Australian humpback whales appear to have maintained their historical adult size. Eastern Australian humpback whales grow at...

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 26 (Bernama-dpa) — Dozens of whale calves have washed up dead on beaches along Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula, officials said. A bacterial infection is currently considered the most likely cause, the government of Chubut province said this week. The bacterium can cause systemic disease in southern right whale calves. No evidence of a human-caused factor has been found so far. Provincial authorities are investigating the strandings in collaboration with scientists. The affected animals are southern right whales (Eubalaena australis), which migrate to the coasts of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay to breed and raise their young. Large numbers gather […]

A proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on Germany's largest island has been delayed following a court ruling and the recent discovery of a dead whale in nearby Baltic waters.

A diving whale revealed how existing technology makes it possible to monitor cetaceans swimming quietly across the seabed

Ahead of Tonga’s election, whale and ocean advocates are preparing a bill to grant legal personhood to the island kingdom’s first ancestors.