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 A virus similar to the H3N8 avian influenza usually a threat to birds, dogs and horses, probably the cause of seal deaths on US East coast |
 The Wildlife Conservation Society has reported that a young male elephant seal tracked for the past year swam 18,000 miles |
 Differences in patterned clicks of sperm whale communication may lean towards culture rather than genetics. |
 WWF is supporting a new project to track narwhals, Arctic whales best known for the long tusk that projects forward from their faces. |
 For 86 per cent of all toothed whale species, entanglement in gillnets, traps, weirs, purse seines, longlines and trawls is resulting in an unsustainably high death toll. |
 Australia's north and northwest teeming with rare and threatened marine life - new reports say. The reports draw attention to the urgent need for marine sanctuaries to protect these vulnerable,... |
 Even marine mammals ascending from the deep must rid themselves of the gas that has built up in their tissues, or risk developing the bends. Dolphins avoid the bends by taking long, shallow... |
 Researchers at the University of Montreal have developed a computer programme that enables regulators to evaluate the ecological and economic tradeoffs between marine mammal conservation, whale... |
 The sperm whale is the canonical whale, its form immortalized by books and drawings centuries old. When you ask a child to draw a whale, it is likely that what will come out of her developing mind... |
 The first genetic study to compare nuclear DNA of endangered Antillean manatees in Belize with Florida manatees confirmed their designation as separate subspecies. |
 Biologists have discovered signs of decompression syndrome – the bends – in several different whale fossils, a finding that could revise the evolutionary history of deep diving. |
 A dolphin appeared to "talk" to two stranded whales before leading them to safety. How common is inter-species communication? |
 Since the early 1990’s, aboriginal whale hunters in Russia’s northeastern Chukotka province have reported that about one-tenth of the whales they killed for food smelled so putrid that they were... |
 The number of Hector's Dolphins caught in commercial gillnets is above 10 times sustainable levels, according to a new analysis by New Zealand's Otago University's Associate Professors Liz Slooten... |
 US Navy has found that the biological sonar of dolphins, called echolocation, makes them effective at locating and marking sea mines. |
 It would have been a Christmas tragedy for some 63 beached pilot whales if not for the tremendous help rendered by the community and tourists of Colville Bay in New Zealand. |
 Researchers speculate that there are at least three distinct species of orca, based on feeding habits and behavior. |
 A study show that industrial and traditional fishing activities along the coast of Mauritania, are putting these mammals and local marine ecosystems at great danger. |
 A new study reveals that the true impact of the disaster on wildlife may be gravely underestimated. The study argues that fatality figures based on the number of recovered animal carcasses will... |
 The critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin population in the Mekong River numbers just 85, WWF research has revealed. Calf survival was found to be very low, leading researchers to conclude that... |
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Marine experts have been left baffled after a rare whale was found over 800 metres from the shore in the Humber Estuary, Skeffling, East Yorkshire. |
 Researchers determine that dolphins found in southeastern Australia represent a previously unknown species. |
 The agreement will help improve humpback whale recovery in the North Atlantic by enhancing management coordination efforts between the two sanctuaries. |
 Internal criticism leaves future of controversial Antarctic hunt in doubt. |
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