The House Natural Resources Committee is set to discuss legislation to make big changes to the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Advocates say it could be the death knell for dozens of species. The ...

House Republican appropriators would cut NOAA by nearly $400 million for fiscal 2026, but they’re rejecting deeper reductions ...

Alix Morris’s new book, A Year with the Seals, explores humans’ complicated relationship with these controversial marine mammals.

The whales are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act and can reach 17 feet and 2,640 pounds, NOAA says.

Southern resident killer whales are a critically endangered population protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Their current population is about 73.

Sharks themselves, apex predators honed over hundreds of millions of years, are now among the most imperiled inhabitants of the world’s oceans. Vilified in pop culture, sliced up for their fins, and ...

OARRA collects samples of dead animals’ lungs, brains, blubber and more, compiling a biological library of clues for researchers around the country. The data helps scientists learn more about what’s ...

The Marine Mammal Center is hoping to reverse an alarming trend in wildlife disturbances. More than a quarter of the sea mammals rescued annually by the Sausalito-based animal hospital have been ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing seven species of pangolin, often poached for their scales and meat, as endangered ...

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act.The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...