According to the fossil record, cetaceans—whales, dolphins and their relatives—evolved from four-legged land mammals that ...

It's well known that cargo vessels and whales don't mix; whale-ship collisions are one of the leading causes of death for ...

A new study has quantified the risk for whale-ship collisions worldwide for four geographically widespread ocean giants that are threatened by shipping: blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales.

To assemble this global whale map the international team looked at the waters ... the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, the Canary ...

A whale near a large vessel in southern Sri Lanka.Asha de Vos According to the fossil record, cetaceans - whales, dolphins and their relatives ...

Ancient and modern; more items than anywhere else in Spain's Mediterranean waters. A wealth of heritage and a good deal of it ...

Collisions are the leading cause of death worldwide for large whale species. The post Research reveals thousands of whales at ...

With its magnificent Temple of Claudius, senate house, theaters, and chariot-racing circus, it was a thriving town with a Mediterranean ... island, with a permanent population of around 7,000, ...

The Associated Press had rare access to a night patrol by Senegal's navy as it scanned the sea for a growing number of ...

Greece's island of Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras and its fascinating history goes back to the myth of the Argonauts ...

Vessel collisions are a leading cause of death for many whale species. “School zones” for the seas could help protect them, scientists say.

However, history has shown us that the Mediterranean Sea is in a very precarious position. Around 5.97 million years ago, an event called the Messinian salinity crisis occurred whereby the ...