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Killing the protected animals may be the only way to stop them from eating too many of the Pacific Northwest’s endangered ...

Videos posted to social media over the weekend show hundreds of people walking over tide pools and disturbing delicate marine ...

At least six great white sharks, one of them a massive 13-foot, 1,400-pound female, have pinged in Florida waters since New ...

Hundreds of frozen endangered sea turtles wash up on the shores of the East Coast every year as ocean temperatures plummet ...

An open-source whale tag that records sound, movement, and environmental data will enable scientists to study and decode ...

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Scientists photograph the elusive ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, the source of the BW43 echolocation pulse, for the first time.

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Listening to our animal kin — some experts predict that the capacity and technology to understand and talk back to non-human ...