Northern resident killer whales appear to use dolphins as ‘scouts’, in a surprising cooperative hunting strategy

Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Nov. 27, 2025 – CITES CoP20 Parties voted to list oceanic whitetip sharks on Appendix I, the highest level of protection offered by CITES. The vote marks a major victory for one...

Predator morphology imposes limitations on prey selection due to biomechanical constraints, making some prey functionally inaccessible and thereby constraining predator trophic niches. We assessed ho....

This study uses climate models and shows that Southern Ocean warming plays a greater role than Arctic Ocean warming in shifting tropical rainfall in a future climate, increasing rainfall in Brazil and...

Marine mammals rely on maintaining sufficient blood oxygen levels while diving to prevent drowning. Generally, oxygen is cognitively imperceptible to mammals that instead sense rising carbon dioxide a...

Aim The white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is one of the world's largest and most recognisable marine predators but has suffered significant declines since the mid-twentieth century. Conservation ...

Ten years (2013–2022) of official data on elasmobranchs landed and discarded by European fishing fleets operating in the Mediterranean Sea were analysed with the primary objective of assessing the sig...

Today marks the official end of the outbreak. Swift action saved many lives and helped protect the rest of the world from potential disaster

In the open ocean, achieving camouflage is complicated by the fact that the downwelling light is generally much brighter than the upwelling light, whi…

ICCAT meeting ends in dramatic defeat of proposal to end at-sea fin removal while other shark safeguards advance Limassol, Cyprus. November 18, 2024. This year’s meeting of the International Commissio...