Story:www.canada.com Springer, the orphaned baby killer whale, may have found a new mom. The two-year-old orca appears to have struck up a relationship with a 16-year-old female, called A-51. It appears A-51 has taken a motherly interest in Springer. It’s too early to know if the match will last but signs are hopeful. “It’s not
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Sea temperatures at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef last summer were the warmest on record and this year’s El Nino event means the risk of mass coral bleaching has increased considerably, scientists reported yesterday.
New images of Springer the killer whale show the orphaned orca alive and well — and sharing waters with several other wild whales.
Scientists from the New England Aquarium and the state of Georgia are attempting to find and rescue a 45-foot right whale that was entangled in lobster lines in the South Atlantic. Full Story: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/072402/met
Almost 60,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are killed each year worldwide by entanglement with fishing nets, a coalition of the world’s leading cetacean scientists reported Tuesday. The scientists have agreed to form a global response team, the Cetacean
Our new website is designed to be more interactive. We now have a fully searchable sightings and strandings database which allows you to search for sightings or strandings by county or species or both! The strandings database is up to date but please bear with us for a while and we will have the sightings
It was over a decade ago that Pacific tuna fisheries, pressured by public outcry in the United States, rushed to label their cans “dolphin safe,” a guarantee that their fishing practices would not harm the intelligent marine animals that Americans had com
Whale meat went on sale at Icelandic supermarkets Monday for the first time in nearly 14 years, as the government said it was just a matter of time before Iceland resumes commercial whaling. The meat on sale at Noatun, which has 15 stores in southwest Ic
An Australian fisherman, rescued after 40 hours clinging to an upturned dinghy, says he owes his life to dolphins that chased off a pack of circling sharks. Full S
A giant squid that washed up on an Australian beach over the weekend could be a member of a new species, according to Australian scientists. Full Story