Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

OARRA collects samples of dead animals’ lungs, brains, blubber and more, compiling a biological library of clues for researchers around the country. The data helps scientists learn more about what’s ...

Boaters spotted a leatherback turtle in trouble in Cape Cod Bay. A storm was moving in — a team from Provincetown answered ...

Since marine mammals were federally protected, the only course of action for federal and state officials was to find a ...

A marine biologist captured video of the moment a bowhead whale cracked through a layer of ice in West Greenland to take a ...

Threshers are not named for the thrashing motion of their tail, as many assume. Instead, their name comes from a farming ...

Conservation nonprofit Oceana said the U.S. government’s new rebuilding plan for Pacific sardines puts the species on the ...

Hawaii’s endangered monk seals are beloved creatures and highly protected by state law. Yet scientists have been unable to ...

On June 27, Janet Neilson, a biologist with the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, saw an adult humpback whale near ...

A die-off last year at St. Paul Island, the first compelling case of fatal saxitoxin poisoning in marine mammals, comes as ...

Imagine a world where just six out of every 100 newborns make it to their teenage years, the rest unable to survive ...

Thousands of the crabs have already been trapped in southern Southeast Alaska, and experts advise the public to be on the ...