For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that ...

While whales do need fresh water, they actually don’t need a huge amount, considering their size. This is largely because, in ...

Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...

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

Swimmers are crowding the whales and diving on them when they surface to breathe. The whale-watching boats also crowd whale ...

Learn about the different ideas that came together in Massachusetts to make the right whale the "right" whale to represent ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh. The marine giants’ urine serves a vital role in ecosystems by moving tons of nutrients across vast ocean distances, according to new research.

Infectious diseases are an increasing threat to wildlife populations globally, and marine mammals are no exception. Dolphins, ...

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

Killer Whale’s sombre meditation on the far-reaching effects of animal captivity undercuts the film’s central survival-horror ...

Researchers were seen at Waimanalo Beach removing a whale carcass that washed up over the weekend. On Saturday, Jan. 17, ...