Tama-chan, a wild Japanese seal who sparked a media frenzy after he got lost in a polluted Yokohama river, had evaded capture by concerned ecologists. Full Story

Dr Sam Ridgway kneels at the side of the pool at Sea World in San Diego, California, and waits for his Canadian protege to come and greet him. It doesn’t take long for Muk, a 34-year-old female beluga whale, to swim the length of the 20m-long tank.

A pygmy sperm whale died Saturday night after beaching itself near the Holiday Inn on Ocean Drive. Full Story

A male white beaked dolphin stranded in Elly Bay, Co. Mayo on the 6th March. The dolphin, measuring 1.8m showed signs of being malnourished. This is only the second white-beaked dolphin stranding to be recorded in Ireland since 1996. Amazingly enough the 1996 stranding also occurred in Elly Bay. That dolphin was also a male

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China has been building a UN-backed zone to protect and showcase endangered Chinese white dolphins (Sousa chinensis) and preserve marine bio-diversity in offshore waters near Shantou City, south China’s Guangdong Province.

British and U.S. zoologists said this week a study of California sea lions had shown the more inbred they were, the more likely they were to be susceptible to diseases and die early.

CITES turns 30 this week, and of the more than 30,000 species since placed under its protection, not one of them has become extinct as a result of trade since the Convention entered into force.

Sir David Attenborough’s BBC series The Blue Planet is to be turned into a film billed as a “rollercoaster tour of the oceans”. Full Story

A group of transient killer whales, which have dined on Hood Canal harbor seals for an unprecedented eight weeks, departed Monday after swimming quickly under the Hood Canal Bridge.

A dead fin whale that has been on the beach by the Fourth Street access since late Thursday will be cut into pieces today and hauled off to the dump. Full Story