Harbor porpoises "buzz" less when boats and ships are nearby—suggesting a drop in feeding and socializing, new research shows ...

Harbor porpoises feed less and alter behavior when ships are nearby, suggesting boat traffic may threaten already vulnerable ...

“This study adds to the growing understanding of how underwater noise and the increasing vessel traffic affects our environment, and in particular a noise-sensitive species like the harbour porpoise,” ...

Scientists have discovered the biggest underbite ever found in a mammal. It belongs to an extinct porpoise that lived on the California coast 5 million years ago. That crazy long underbite you see in ...

Around the world, fishermen use low-cost nets that sit like fences on coastal seafloors. Known as set gill nets, this type of gear is highly effective at catching fish when the mesh snags them by ...

The body of a decapitated porpoise found on a beach has triggered a police investigation. The porpoise had washed up on Aberffraw beach in Anglesey, Wales, and was discovered missing its head by a ...

Recent drone footage of a young Yangtze River finless porpoise chasing a knife fish was captured by a volunteer for porpoise conservation in East China' Jiangsu Province. The video clip shows a ...

Scientific knowledge of the rarely seen spectacled porpoise is extremely limited. So the new addition to the Museum's research collections is set to offer a rare insight into the lives of these ...

For at least 1,400 years, poets in China have penned pieces about the Yangtze River’s sights and sounds. Now, scientists are using those artworks to reconstruct an animal’s past. “When we do ...