Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic.

The ocean, blanketing over 70% of the Earth’s surface, is estimated to be home to more than half of all life on our planet.

In 2017, a new global treaty was meant to bring mercury pollution under control. But three decades of data from UK harbor ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

The plan: use a Bluetooth speaker to play the recording across the bay, hoping the mother would recognize the sound and come ...

By studying more than 10,000 necropsies, researchers now know how much plastic it takes to kill seabirds, sea turtles, and ...

To date, every family of marine mammal and seabird and all seven species of sea turtles have been documented to ingest ...

Marine animals inevitably eat what we toss in the ocean, including pervasive plastics—but how much is too much?

Learn all about the fascinating discovery of three deep-sea species, found off the coast of California, including the cute ...

Officials have left the whale on the beach since Sunday, because at more than 100,000 pounds it is simply too big to move ...

Three decades of data from UK harbour porpoises show mercury is still increasing despite a global treaty to reduce it.