For 35 years, American zoologist Laurie Marker has been collecting and storing specimens in a cheetah sperm bank in Namibia, ...

Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas.

Drone-based blow sampling advances pathogen surveillance in North Atlantic whales using DJI equipment for non-invasive health monitoring.

A deadly pathogen known as cetacean morbillivirus has been detected in Arctic waters for the first time. Researchers found it ...

Rape prosecution in India has always been a tricky task with the survivors often undergoing intimidation, social stigma, and ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

A new RapidHIT ID machine, which bears a passing resemblance to an air fryer, can generate a human DNA profile in about 90 ...

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the largest marine oil spills ever. In the aftermath of the disaster, whale scientist Iain Kerr traveled to the ...

An open-source whale tag that records sound, movement, and environmental data will enable scientists to study and decode ...

There is good news, and bad news. On Nov. 21, South Korean investigators finally identified the man behind two long-unsolved murders in Seoul’s Sinjeong-dong, a ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?