The United States will allow Mexican tuna to be sold in the United States under the “dolphin-safe” label, ending a 12-year trade conflict, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said.

The RSPCA is calling for urgent action from the government and EU to prevent the deaths of hundreds of dolphins and porpoises in commercial fishing nets off the South West coast every year.

Two groups of US biologists say they have detected a consistent pattern of response by wild species to warmer temperatures. Full Story

A complete skeleton of the largest predator of all time, a Jurassic sea monster that made tyrannosaurus rex look like a featherweight, has been discovered in Mexico.

There was a posting on 28 December about Longman’s Beaked Whale, Indopacetus pacificus. It refers to a BBC report of an individual stranded in Japan in July as “the most complete specimen ever seen” and also notes “other fragmentary remains found in South Africa, the Maldives and Kenya”. Just for the record, the Maldives “remains”

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The massive oil spill off Spain’s northwest coast threatens dolphins and other marine mammals that have been coated with tar-like heavy oil.

The whale calf, maybe a month old, follows its mother, slapping its tail on the surface of the sea just before disappearing under the dark turquoise water. <

The federal government said harvesting tuna fish in the Pacific Ocean using a large net does not significantly affect nearby dolphin populations, but animal and environmental groups balked at the findings.

The Conservation Minister is stunned by a new report showing more than 2000 New Zealand species are threatened with extinction. Full Story

A team of coastguards has succeeded in freeing a whale which beached itself on rocks in Portland Harbour, Dorset. [Although reported as a juvenile humpback, we have it on good authority that this animal was in fact a minke whale – Ed.]