The Seaside Aquarium says the whale was first spotted dead floating in the water on May 23, about 15 miles offshore. It was spotted again on May 27, about 7 miles offshore before washing ashore.

A ship carrying 2 000 tonnes of fin whale meat skipped the Durban port after South Africans called on government to deny it entry, Greenpeace said. The cargo ship Alma was sailing from Iceland en ...

Join Melanie Gosling as she writes from on board South Africa's state-of-the-art marine research ship, the SA Agulhas ll. Gone is the placid ocean of the last two days, as we head towards Cape Agulhas ...

Scientists are looking to better track whale sharks in New Zealand to determine how vulnerable they are to ship strikes after an international study found it may be the cause of their decline ...

One of SIMRES’ many projects is the Southern Gulf Islands Whale Sighting Network, for which about 100 residents of Saturna, Pender, Mayne and Galiano islands act as observers.

A massive global collaboration has tracked over 12,000 marine animals from whales to turtles to create one of the most detailed movement maps of ocean giants ever assembled. The project, MegaMove ...

Recently-released necropsy results found that the whale was struck by a ship, causing blunt force trauma to the head. According to Lowcountry Marine Network, the animal strike resulted in multiple ...

Captain Alfred Fisher, of the Nantucket whale-ship " America," during his last voyage, visited the Tinian, one of the Ladrone Islands, and in one of his walks discovered ruins of what was once an ...