Block Island had a special, if unlucky visitor on Sunday and Monday in Old Harbor near the commercial town fishing dock. It ...

Hiding in plain sight for centuries, the critically endangered Burrunan dolphin is both an enigma and a conservation ...

This is the moment a huge crowd gathered in Sorsogon, Philippines on October 8 as a Risso's dolphin was washed onto a rocky ...

Researcher Jeremy Kiszka teamed up with a company that makes an app to follow the movements of species at risk. Proceeds from its sale fund the university's marine conservation efforts.

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in ...

Mercury contamination comes mainly from illegal gold mining and forest clearing that wash mercury that naturally occurs in soil into waterways.

By examining the gastrointestinal tracts of deceased Indus River dolphins, or IRDs, researchers hoped to gain a better ...

Scientists found stranded dolphins show brain changes and toxins linked to Alzheimer’s during harmful algal blooms.