A man in Scotland recently discovered the 8,000-year-old skeleton of a dolphin while digging a swimming pool in his backyard.

February may be the shortest month of the year, but Mount Washington can pack a lot of weather into a small window. The active pattern that brought many rounds of snow to the Northeast throughout ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sea rescuers and wildlife activists in dinghies approach a whale to cut it loose from fishing nets off the ...

The largest blue whale on record is a female, who was measured at a South Georgia whaling station in the South Atlantic. This event occurred in 1909. She was measured at 33.58 m (110 ft 17 in). The ...

PEKAN, Feb 24 — The decomposed of a beached whale was discovered at Sungai Miang Beach, Pahang, according to the state Fisheries Department. Acting on public reports, a team from the Pahang Fisheries ...

Whale stranding is a phenomenon in which whales are stuck on land, usually on a beach. Other aquatic animals such as dolphins and porpoises are also known to beach. Most of the stranding events ...

A Spanish photographer has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year for his picture of a humpback whale and her newborn calf in French Polynesia. Alvaro Herrero beat more than 6,750 other ...

Unraveling the mystery of the missing blue whale calves Date: February 21, 2025 Source: University of Washington Summary: Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf ...

Ms Allen urged people to follow the whale watching code of conduct. "Slow approach and only from the side, not from directly in front or behind, and stay at least 100m (328ft) away," she said.

A jaw-dropping video from Chile has captured the moment when a humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker into its mouth before releasing him unharmed. The incident, filmed in the frigid waters of ...

A 23-year-old Venezuelan kayaker, Adrián Simancas, was briefly swallowed by a humpback whale while he was pedalling through the Strait of Magellan, off Chile’s Patagonian coast, on February 8. The ...

The rest had died shortly after the stranding. Tasmania has seen a series of mass whale strandings in recent years - including the country's worst-ever in 2020 - but false killer whales haven't ...