A baited camera captured a sleeper shark in the Southern Ocean for the first time. Sharks have survived mass extinctions, shifting continents and dramatic climate swings for more than 400 million ...

Two fossil bones long tagged as woolly mammoth have now been confirmed as whales after tests overturned their museum label.

Sixty years since Lars-Eric Lindblad led the first ‘citizen explorers’ expedition to the Antarctic, expedition specialists explain how to sell the frozen continent ...

Antarctica is a formidable icy seductress, provoking feelings of wonder and trepidation in varying degrees like nowhere else on earth. Ever since the White Continent was formally discovered a little ...

The North Atlantic Ocean is warming up. Higher temperatures and increased human activity in the region can trigger abrupt changes in marine ecosystems, for example, how species are distributed and ...

Authorities have launched an investigation after a dead whale was found on the bow of a ship coming to port at a marine terminal in New Jersey over the weekend. The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Delaware ...

There is a language for ice. Tabulas are broad, flat-topped icebergs, and growlers are smaller bergs under three feet tall. Brash ice is a collection of floating discs that form mesmerizing patterns ...

A wildlife veterinarian who performs necropsies shares what it takes to investigate a whale stranding. When a whale dies, it often decomposes quite quickly—the process starts within hours of an animal ...

A 20-foot Minke whale stranded in very shallow waters in Barnegat Bay this weekend in the Jersey Shore area later died before marine rescuers could make it to the distressed whale. Video from nearby ...

Drop a microphone into the Atlantic Ocean, and it will amplify a chorus of leviathans: fin whales, Antarctic minke whales, blue whales, and more. At 20 hertz, the pulses of the fin whales dominate.

Sergey Bachkovsky, of Greene, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland, Maine, to trafficking whale and bird parts in violation of the Lacey Act. According to court records and ...