A sea life survey off Scotland's west coast has recorded rare sightings of what are believed to be the last surviving members of a group of UK orcas. Known as the West Coast Community, the group ...

The decision to travel to Norway and using the country as a stopover to our final destination, Switzerland, was mine. The idea to visit Tromsø was hers.

A mosasaur tooth has been found at one of the most famous Late Cretaceous fossil sites in the world. That means the famous ...

Natural predators aren't just fearsome hunters. They are ecosystem architects that sculpt wild landscapes, influence ...

A 66-million-year-old tooth unearthed in North Dakota revealed the secrets of mosasaurs, a huge 40ft ocean predator. The ...

Seals are semi-aquatic marine mammals. They’re also known as pinnipeds, which means ‘fin-footed’, referring to the large flippers they have for arms and legs. Combined with their streamlined, ...

Afloat.ie is Ireland's only full-time marine journalism team and it takes time, money and hard work to produce our content. If everyone chipped in, we can enhance our coverage and our future would be ...

The virus causes severe respiratory, neurological and immune damage, and has triggered multiple mass mortality events ...

This innovative technique, colloquially known as “snot-bot” sampling, allows us to understand whale health better than ever ...

A federal judge has awarded an environmental group more than $1.6 million for prevailing in a lawsuit against Endangered Species Act regulations for killer whales. In 2020, the Wild Fish Conservancy ...

A dead sperm whale that washed up on a Nantucket beach is making waves for local officials who are trying to move it. The 50-foot, 104,000-pound male sperm whale appeared on the island off ...