“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,” ...

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For decades, fish-eating killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have been observed harassing and even killing porpoises without consuming them —- a perplexing behavior that has long intrigued ...

MEXICO CITY — U.S. President Joe Biden is urging Mexico to step up conservation efforts for the endangered vaquita porpoise and the totoaba fish, threatening possible trade sanctions if there no ...

We might think of our local southern resident orcas as sea pandas, playfully spy hopping through their day. The local porpoises will tell you different. Scientists for decades have observed ...

In order to keep the population of harbour porpoises in Danish coastal waters stable, only 24 can perish in fishing nets each year. However, over 900 die each year. Researchers from Denmark, Germany ...

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The international trade in exotic animal parts includes rhino horn, seahorses and bear gallbladders. But perhaps none is as strange as the swim bladder from a giant Mexican fish called the totoaba.

Around 30 finless porpoises were filmed for the first time in waters in Tokyo Bay off Haneda Airport. The aerial footage, recorded by a joint team from the Tokyo University of Marine Science and ...