A Paulding County Superior Court judge sentenced a man to 475 years in prison for more than 100 dog fighting and animal cruelty charges. India has doubled its tiger population in just over a ...

Numbers of whales lose their lives after becoming entangled and being unable to free themselves. Off this part of Hawaii , sanctuary staff have counted eight whales with entanglements since mid ...

Microplastic pollution is helping to drive the rise in killer superbugs, an Oxford study has found for the first time. The presence of tiny fragments of plastic in the environment has been shown ...

1, pushing her calf's carcass around, draped over the top of her head as she swam. The dorsal fin of the orca known as J35, or Tahlequah, is seen above the ocean surface as she pushes her dead ...

Orcas, known for their intelligence, can mimic human language, as demonstrated by a female orca named Wikie who replicated words like 'hello' and 'bye-bye.' This research highlights orcas' vocal ...

Imagine hearing a killer whale say "hello" or "bye-bye"—it sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie, but this phenomenon is backed by science. A 2018 study has revealed that orcas, one of the ocean's ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and stranded just off a beach in the island chain on Sunday, a local marine ...

Members of the marine mammal rescue group Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys on ...

Animals do impressive things all the time, but people weren’t quite ready to hear orcas imitating people speaking English. Orcas, also known as killer whales, have a reputation as one of the most ...

NOAA Fisheries West Coast An orca whale mother has kept her dead calf by her side for at least 11 days. Tahlequah (who is also known as her alpha-numeric designation, J35) previously made ...

Orca whale mom Tahlequah (J35) has been carrying her dead calf for at least 11 days ...