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Giant drift nets, placed around the world’s oceans to catch commercial fish species, kill non-commercial animals just as efficiently, often taking far more of the latter for every useable species ensnared.
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Sea Lion Drowned in Drift Net

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Juvenile California sea lion
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Acrobats of La Paz, Mexico

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A polar bear lifting his head to smell the scent of humans nearby
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Polar Bear Impacted by Climate Change

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Scientists document a direct relationship between Arctic sea ice and polar bear survival.
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Forecast for Polar Bear Populations

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A bottlenose dolphin carries a sponge, which it uses as a tool to dig up prey from the seafloor.
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Sponge-Wielding Bottlenose Dolphin

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A 3-D reconstruction of the skull of a fin whale fetus.
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3-D Reconstruction Of Fin Whale Skull

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North Atlantic right whales migrate seasonally along the eastern coast of the United States.
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North Atlantic Right Whale Territory

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A right whale opens wide, revealing huge plates of baleen hanging from its upper jaw.
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Right Whale Baleen

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A life-size, meticulously detailed model of the North Atlantic right whale Phoenix hangs in the Smithsonian’s Sant Ocean Hall in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.
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Model of Phoenix

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A view of the injured fluke belonging to Phoenix’s mother, Stumpy. It is not known what caused this injury. It possibly could have been an entanglement.
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Stumpy’s Tail

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An early scale model of North Atlantic right whale Phoenix that was used to develop a life size model for the Smithsonian shows the location of scars on her mouth from entanglements with fishing gear.
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Phoenix: Mouth Scarring

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A white scar on Phoenix’s lip (at right) was caused by her entanglement with a fishing line.
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Lip Scar Caused By Fishing Gear

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