Smaller pygmy sperm whales live in the ocean around South Carolina all year round, but other species pass through the Myrtle Beach area seasonally.

Galapagos Shark Diving, renowned for its dedication to marine conservation and eco-conscious tourism, is excited to announce ...

Scientists have recently described one of the world’s tiniest vertebrates: an adorable miniature toad species found in Brazil. They reported their findings in the journal PeerJ.The little guys belong ...

Researchers have developed a model to calculate how quickly or slowly an organism should ideally learn in its surroundings. An organism's ideal learning rate depends on the pace of environmental ...

As world leaders at the U.N. Biodiversity Summit in Colombia wind up their talks on how to implement the target of protecting ...

Whales have been returning to the Forth as they migrate from the Caribbean to Iceland and Norway- and it's becoming more and more common!

Gather a handful of acorns from one oak tree then plant them and they will germinate and grow. Gather acorns from a different ...

Fear of the oceans, or thalassophobia, is an understandable emotional reaction. The environment is dark, inhospitable to humans, and contains some of the planet’s biggest and weirdest creatures. But ...

One of the smallest of all the cetaceans, the harbor porpoise clocks in at a maximum length of around five and a half feet.

Here’s the story of Squilla, a rare North Atlantic right whale mother, and her firstborn. To help their species continue, they’d have to navigate an increasingly dangerous ocean.

Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative consisting of over 50 scientists, is working to uncover — and eventually decode — patterns in whale “speech.” ...

Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have seen a slight population increase since last year. The whales swim off ...