Weligama, Mirissa and Galle, towns on Sri Lanka’s southern coast, are a haven for tourism, hosting surfers and marine ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

krill and small fish — out of the water. Examples of baleen whales include blue whales, fin whales and humpback whales. Toothed whales usually eat larger prey, which can include fish ...

Trevor Branch, a UW professor of aquatic and fishery sciences who studies blue whales, set out to unravel this mystery by looking at a range of hypotheses. He proposes that one in particular is ...

Out of all the blue whale sightings worldwide, mother-calf pairs make up just 3.1 percent. This doesn’t make sense; though blue whales are far rarer today than they were before the rise of ...

There’s an irascible, high-handed volunteer mayor (Crystal Finn) who may be the Karennest Karen ever, bulldozing through town halls convened to discuss the Whale ... have fallen out of joint.

For too long, Humpback whales' urinary contributions to the ocean have been overlooked. Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological information and nutrients for the ocean. Not to be left out, their urine ... growth and into the water. “But we soon realized ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and ... for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance ...