Just because scientists label a marine mammal’s death as part of an unusual mortality event (UME), that doesn’t mean the animal’s cause of death is a mystery. It means more animals of that species are ...

Sixty orcas were filmed killing a 59-foot pygmy blue whale in Bremer Canyon off the coast of Western Australia on April 7. The brutal footage shows the pod of killer whales living up to their name, ...

During his remarks in a cabinet meeting in July, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that windmills are killing whales. Kennedy stated, "They've killed 160 whales." ...

For the first time, based on new research, killer whales have been detected hunting, killing and eating two different species that they have never previously been associated with killing: a sevengill ...

New York City’s waterways are running red as fatal boat strikes become a growing threat to the booming marine life population — a sick reality that killed a celebrity whale and dolphin so far this ...

A Cape May commercial fisherman charged with killing a pilot whale in 2011 has gotten a federal order prohibiting federal agents and a defense investigator from speaking to informants in the case.

Ships are hitting and killing whales off the California coast at some of the highest rates in more than a decade, according to data obtained and tabulated by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The ...

Makah Tribal leaders Sunday denounced an illegal whale hunt over the weekend and said they would prosecute those tribal members who are responsible. Five tribal members harpooned and shot a California ...

Coffman Cove commercial fisherman Dugan Paul Daniels, 55, was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison for illegally “taking” an endangered sperm whale and falsifying fishing records in 2020. The ...

This is a hand lance used by whalers in New Bedford, Massachusetts, around 1876. The blade is wide and short and is fluted on both sides. “T.S.” is stamped on both sides of the blade. This tool, also ...