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

Albania is located on the Balkan Peninsula in southern Europe, right across the Adriatic Sea from the "boot" of Italy and ...

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.

Also known as the Royal Palace, the Palazzo dei Normanni is the oldest royal residence in Europe. Now home to the Sicilian ...

It supposedly resided in the Mediterranean and is therefore depicted in many Renaissance maps of the ... lighting a fire. The island soon reveals itself to be a whale and plunges into the ocean, ...

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

In a University of Washington-led paper published in the journal Science, UC Santa Barbara researchers add some clarity to that picture and it’s sobering: Global shipping traffic overlaps with about ...

Can Tres, formerly a run-of-the-mill collection of small self-catering apartments, has been given an enticing and very ...

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

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

Mapping in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off Alaska has uncovered a 1,640-foot-tall structure on the seafloor, but scientists ...