A polar bear devours a sperm whale on the ice of Svalbard, a scene that reveals how Arctic wildlife is struggling to survive ...

When animals face danger, they don’t all run or hide. Many have developed unusual and sometimes extreme ways to protect ...

An artwork memorializing the impact of the whaling industry on marine life has been installed in South Georgia. The memorial ...

Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory ...

A sperm whale lies on its side amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, its mouth hanging open in a silent scream. The lateral image on a flat plain resembles a textbook’s illustration of ...

A rare pygmy sperm whale has been found stranded on a Welsh beach. Despite the best efforts of experts who were called in to ...

A rare baby whale was discovered on an Anglesey beach. The Pygmy sperm whale was stranded on Trearddur Bay. Experts were ...

Coiled in self-defence, this armoured creature – the armadillo girdled lizard – turns its body into a formidable fortress to ...

"It is unnecessarily hard on children," said the fatherly New York Times in a recent editorial, "to put before them sloppily written stories of impossible people in an ...

The oceans are not as safe as we thought: new research reveals that even the most remote marine mammals are contaminated with toxic pollutants, threatening ocean ecosystems.

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to understand sperm whale vocalizations. Lawyers think the discoveries may ...