A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest ...

A Maine congressman and several commercial fishing groups are getting behind a push to delay rules designed to protect a ...

One of the world’s largest mammals, the humpback whale is an incredible species for many reasons. They may even be the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of ...

But researchers studying the mammal couldn’t confirm whether the species was extinct until 2010, when two whole spade-toothed whales, both dead, washed up on a New Zealand beach.

This whale species is so rare it’s never been seen alive. A dissection may decode its mysteries by: CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY, Associated Press Posted: Dec 2, 2024 / 05:02 PM PST ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species.

DNA sequencing in 2002 proved that all three specimens were of the same species — and that it was distinct from other beaked whales. But researchers studying the mammal couldn’t confirm whether the ...