ISTANBUL — When a 28-year-old volunteer named Nikolai stepped onto a sandy beach on Russia’s Black Sea coast in ... from the shore, common bottlenose dolphins and harbor porpoises were ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

Credit: Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 In a remote corner of the eastern Aegean Sea, on the north side of the tiny ... and reports in local media, four of nine bottlenose dolphins ...

Why wait in line for a far-off glimpse of pandas when you can snuggle with cows, stretch with goats or sip tea with kittens?

Scientists have discovered that juvenile bottlenose dolphins have specialized receptors for detecting the fatty acids in their mother's milk. These findings, published in the journal Marine Mammal ...

Researchers studying crustaceans in Vietnam have identified a new "supergiant" sea bug species that bears a surprising resemblance to a classic movie villain. Deep-sea sea bugs, or the Bathynomus ...

Juvenile dolphins were found to have specialized receptors for fatty acids on their tongues, offering new insights into their growth and feeding habits. Juvenile dolphins were found to have ...

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New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...