Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 ...

A scanned image of the skeleton of the world’s most endangered ... is the world’s smallest porpoise and lives within 1,500 square miles of the northern Gulf of California.

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Natural History Museum and SeaWorld San Diego have partnered with researchers at the Florida Atlantic University to scan the skeleton of a rare endangered ...

Take, for instance, the harbor porpoises. Keener said these friendly ... historical presence in San Francisco Bay — save for one skeleton discovered in a 2,500-year-old shellmound and one ...

In August 2023, he captured a handful of powerful images showing a Bigg’s killer whale hunting harbour porpoises off Sangster Island. “This one is pretty special because it’s one of the ...

But his colleagues who study marine mammals offered what is now the scientists’ most likely explanation for the seafloor pits: hungry harbor porpoises. In previous research, scientists have ...

In a recently published research paper, they highlight the challenges faced by harbor porpoises in Danish coastal waters and in the western part of the Baltic. The findings are published in the ...

Bill Keener’s eyes widened as he peered through his binoculars and spotted the dark, shiny dorsal fins swiftly bobbing along the surface of San Francisco Bay. “There’s three of them coming ...

Scientists may have finally figured out why a population of orcas in the Salish Sea have been tossing porpoises around and taking them into their mouths without eating them. When you purchase ...

A small population of orcas in the Pacific Northwest has been harassing and killing young porpoises for decades ... sometimes kill surplus amounts of harbor seals, which might allow calves ...

We also have toothed whales here, harbor porpoises, Atlantic white-sided dolphins, common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, pilot whales, an occasional sperm whale, and killer whales. These whales ...