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Persian Gulf shipping is still at high risk despite a cease-fire between Iran and Israel, a British-U.S. naval task force ...

Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a passage for roughly 20% of the world’s petroleum. Many view the scenario ...

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In a new study, Cartwright and a team of strandings specialists documented how a “companion whale” tries to help when an individual humpback whale gets entangled in fishing gear. 3:47 ...

Summer will peak this weekend with the longest day and shortest night of the year, however, some events for this weekend are ...

Imagery captured from June 2-17 by the ESA's Sentinel-2 satellites shows U.S. warships dispersing from the U.S. naval base in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf.

Whales have hair. Although they don’t look furry, whales do have hair, Hodgins says, explaining that some whales and dolphins are born with what look like whiskers on their beaks. These whiskers ...

It is part of an effort to evaluate the health of the whale population up north – and support subsistence in the area. Scientists and Iñupiaq hunters have been counting bowhead whales passing by the ...

The whale was about eight metres (25 feet) long, Jacobs said, indicating it was still "quite young". The rope appeared to be tangled around the whale's left pectoral fin, she said. "The way it is ...

Whale sharks can reach up to 12 meters (39.3 feet) in length (the largest ever accurately measured was 18.8 meters (61.7 feet) long) and weigh about 15 tons on average.