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 ...

A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale made an incredible 3,000-mile journey from Ireland to Boston, providing ...

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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Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

For decades Runswick Bay, eight miles north-west of Whitby, was heralded as a "hidden gem", but since being named as Britain's best beach by The Times in 2020 the coastal village has been engulfed by ...