It was a typical Thursday night of doomscrolling on TikTok in bed to pass the time — an easy thing to do on most nights, ...

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

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The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

At the Natural History Museum, the cetacean collection contains the remains of more than 6,000 specimens of whales, dolphins, ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

For the past two decades, you longed to cut off the hand that America extends to the most impoverished, oppressed, desperate, and ill of the world. And now you've done it.

The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian newspaper.

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...