This week, the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro said it had seen no new patients with domoic acid poisoning or any recent signs of Pseudo-nitzschia algae in Southern California waters.

The latest addition is the Marine Organismal Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name implies—has collected body size data for more than 85,000 marine animal species and ...

Experts say there is no evidence that whales or other marine mammals across the globe are beaching themselves more often. In fact, the behavior is a relatively commonplace one that Read said has ...

Scientists expect even more new species to emerge from the region. Scientists have identified several new marine species in a pristine underwater ecosystem recently discovered in international ...

Marine mammals are living in a "soup" of pollution issues, says Deaville. The effects change depending on location or depth, and the animals' season or stage of life, he adds.

H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American livestock for the first time. Scientists are working quickly to assess how it is evolving and how ...

So far, the Marine Organismal Body Size Database includes the maximum size of some 85,200 marine species. Biologists have launched a database of marine animals’ body sizes that they say could help ...

One solution is to shut down one half of their brain at a time. Called unihemispheric sleep, it's one way marine mammals, such as dolphins, can get some rest while in open water. "Unihemispheric ...

Berkeley County Library System (BCLS) is co-hosting, with Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network, All About Marine Mammals, on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 from 4:00 – ...

Almost every state lists an official state mammal. For 13 states, it's the white-tailed deer. Here's a full list of the state animals across the U.S.