HILLSBORO Ore. (KPTV) - The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Friday to protect southern resident orcas under the ...
The wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the southwestern U.S. is still growing, but environmental groups are warning that inbreeding and the resulting genetic crisis within the endangered ...
Bigg’s would be known as Orcinus rectipinnus (Latin for recti, meaning upright, and pinna, meaning fin). Bigg’s should ...
A 46-foot-long endangered fin whale was found dead on a beach in Oregon this week, according to CBS News. NOAA Fisheries West Coast conducted an investigation and found that the whale was not ...
Inbreeding is the mating of individuals or organisms that are genetically closely related, resulting in increased homozygosity and consequently an increase in the occurrence of recessive traits.
A critically endangered whale species has fewer offspring because of increasingly frequent entanglement in fishing gear. North Atlantic right whales—of which there are only an estimated 356 left ...
A pair of orcas working in concert have been killing great whites along a stretch of South African coastline since at least 2017, plundering the sharks' nutrient-rich livers and discarding the ...
Spanning around 10 feet in length and weighing 1,000 pounds on average, manatees are the gentle giants of water. In some cases, the "sea cow" can grow up to 13 feet long and weigh 3,500 pounds ...
With its striking coloration, the giant panda is an instantly recognizable species. A handful of giant pandas that aren’t black-and-white, however, do exist. These majestic creatures with brown ...
Keepers at Woburn Safari Park have welcomed the birth of an endangered ring-tailed lemur. The lemur was born at the safari park in Bedfordshire to parents Koko and Berenty on March 11 and weighed ...
NEW YORK - More than 700 languages can be heard on the streets of New York, but linguists say many are in danger of extinction. The Buddhist temple on 75th Street in Elmhurst is a gathering place ...
A group of orcas off the coast of California has honed a brutal set of hunting skills. Trapping prey near an underwater canyon, they flip, drown, ram, and slap their targets to death. Killer whales ...