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

Whales are some of the largest known creatures to exist (or, in the case of the blue whale, to have ever existed) on Earth, with some species weighing up to 200 tons—and while many find the ...

The frequency was much higher than a blue whale or its cousin, the fin whale, leaving scientists to ponder the mystery of Whale 52. The leviathan has been heard many times since, but never seen.

“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 ...

MANY readers of NATURE may have heard an incredible story ... of the Star of the East having been swallowed by a sperm whale and recovered alive from its stomach some hours after.

The study, published March 10 in the journal Nature Communications ... In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly reduced after intense hunting in the twentieth century.

The study, published March 10 in the journal Nature Communications ... In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly reduced after intense hunting in the twentieth century.

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 ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications ... higher latitudes to lower latitudes: blue whales, fin whales, gray whales ...