A freshwater dolphin population has gone extinct in northeastern Cambodia after the last member got tangled in fishing gear and died. The Irrawaddy dolphin was found dead on a riverbank on February 15 ...

Along the coast of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil, fishing is a way of life. But not just any kind of fishing. For the last 150 years, the fishers of the city of Laguna have cultivated a unique ...

An international team of researchers have developed a method to assess sustainable levels of human-caused wildlife mortality, which when applied to a trawl fishery shows that dolphin capture is not ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

A rare, endangered dolphin has been found dead after apparently becoming tangled in a fishing net and drowning. The female Irrawaddy dolphin was found in the water on Tuesday this week by a fisher in ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A placid fishing trip turned “berserk” for three New Zealand men when a dolphin weighing more than 400 kilograms (900 pounds) appeared to fall out of the sky before ...