Dick Van Dyke recalled falling asleep and seeing "fins" while out on his surfboard, but then the unexpected happened.

Dick Van Dyke thought he was a goner after getting washed out to sea during a surfing accident—until his life was saved by a ...

And while each case is heartbreaking on its own, it's part of a much bigger pattern. Experts make 'most distressing' ...

All porpoises are smaller than the largest dolphins, which can be more than 10 feet long. The two common names are used interchangeably in various parts of the world, often depending on local custom.

A porpoise’s forehead acts like a ‘metamaterial’ to create the directional sound beam used by the marine mammals to detect and track prey, claim researchers in the US and China. The acoustics experts ...

Scientists have documented what might be the first case of friendly interactions between killer whales and smaller cetaceans.

"Harbor porpoises show that if you stop killing them, thank you, they can return. That they're capable of recovering," Forney said. "They have a resilience and they will rebound if we just let them." ...

To help save them from extinction, The Living Desert on Saturday hosted a “Party with a Porpoise” at its Discovery Center in recognition of International Save the Vaquita Day.

Southern Resident killer whale J31 ramming into a harbor porpoise on September 9, 2009. J36, J39 and K37 also participated in the incident. The porpoise eventually died and was collected for a ...

Porpoises, in contrast, are less likely to have close encounters with humans. (No drama, no record.) Instead, sightings were typically by local, less-educated anglers or wealthy travelers — who ...

The porpoise appears to have been buried in a formal fashion, with the body laid neatly in a near East-West orientation. (Philip de Jersey) That makes a lot of sense.

The Porpoise is full of death and darkness, but Haddon uses them as vehicles to deliver keen observations on the nature of loss, depression, judgment, and cowardice.Some of the men here act in ...