Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

Scientists confirmed the first east-to-west Atlantic migration of a North Atlantic right whale, traveling 3,000 miles from ...

Drones have been used to successfully collect samples from the exhaled breath of whales, revealing the first evidence of ...

Scientists have collected "blow" samples from wild humpback, sperm, and fin whales in Northern Norway using drones.

Killer whales or orca (Orcinus orca) have been observed hunting with Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) in the waters off ...

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Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways. For a long time, scientists could only make educated guesses about when wild animals were sleeping.

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A heroic backpacker fought to save his girlfriend from a shark attack that claimed her life, suffering massive injuries ...

Australia has a new national recycling program for soft plastics – more than three years after the devastating collapse of ...

Ireland is referred back to the European Court of Justice over failures in urban waste water treatment, risking further EU ...