According to the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN, it is estimated that the number of sperm whales in the Mediterranean ranges from 500 to 5,000 individuals, with between 250 and 2,500 ...

The treaty to create the Whale Sanctuary in the Mediterranean has been ratified by the Italian Parliament. Rome, Italy - The treaty to create the Whale Sanctuary in the Mediterranean has been ratified ...

These long, narrow inlets are now among the few places in Europe you can see a pod of killer whales. Across Europe, these cetaceans are declining rapidly. In the Mediterranean and the North Sea ...

There are five types of killer whale in Antarctica, but only three found in these waters, near the peninsula south of South ...

A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse with her for more than two weeks in a harrowing tale of grief, has lost another baby, scientists revealed.

Orcas, or killer whales, also adopted a bizarre behavior during this time that could only be described as a fad—balancing dead salmon on their heads like aquatic hats. Just as quickly as this ...

J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles in 2018, according to the Center for Whale Research.

Hotspots for Cuvier’s beaked whale sightings were also observed on the shelf edge of the Armorican shelf and in the Alboran Sea in the Mediterranean Sea. This coincides with the Alboran Deep ...

The whale, some eight metres long and around 15 months old, had already been seen off Morocco in March, and then again in Italian waters, first near Naples, then Rome and then Genoa.