Tag: Marine Life

A spate of attacks by seals around Cape Town in South Africa may be due to the marine mammals having been poisoned by domoic acid. The domoic acid, a toxin ...

A rarely-seen blue whale has been spotted off the California coast, placing the gargantuan creature thousands of miles away from where they are normally found during Christmas. The blue whale ...

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said Friday. The International ...

An outbreak of disease in sea lions along the Oregon coast is being reported, with large numbers of the marine mammals found stranded. The sea lions are getting sick with ...

A ballooning whale carcass has been found on the north side of Malcolm Island in British Columbia. The young female humpback, called Spike, has no apparent external injuries and rescuers ...

Is this dastardly, alien looking creature actually a rare, deep sea shark? You better be-reef it. An Australian fisherman posted a photo of the beast of the deep blue — one ...

Great white sharks are iconic marine predators that are found around the world in temperate and subtropical waters. But what threats is this species facing, and how many of these ...

Dolphins with video cameras strapped to them have been recorded making excited noises as they captured prey, including yellow-bellied sea snakes, in the San Diego Bay and in the open ...

A species of endangered sea turtles were discovered nesting this summer on the beaches of Louisiana’s Chandeleur Islands for the first time in 75 years. The tiny Kemp’s ridley turtles ...

A fourth endangered sharks has been found washed up dead on beaches in a small coastal town in Australia. This follows the disappearance of a colony of gray nurse sharks ...