Whale watching season has begun off the coast of San Diego, and in at least one case, it’s had an unforgettable beginning. ...

A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale, swimming in the Gulf off the Florida coast, was captured on video by SeaTrek ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales - including right whales, gray whales, and humpbacks - transport around ...

In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly reduced after intense hunting in the twentieth century. "There's basic things that we don't know about them, like where their breeding ...

In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly reduced after intense hunting in the twentieth century. "There's basic things that we don't know about them, like where their ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

A complete carcass of a fin whale was discovered off the coast of Yilan County, the first time the world’s second-largest marine mammal has been discovered in its entirety near Taiwan, the Taiwan ...

The ocean plays a vital role in the world’s economy. But it is threatened by climate change and overexploitation. Could the blue economy help? Across Europe, the ocean provides food, energy ...