Human-made structures act as artificial reefs, luring plankton and, in turn, Earth’s largest fish. That could put whale sharks at risk of ship strikes.

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The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

Ackerman refers to local killer whale pods in two distinct groups: the ones he calls “meat eaters” and those that hunt ...

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

The endangered southern resident killer whales that visit Puget Sound were listed for protection under the federal Endangered ...

Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...

Alisa Schulman-Janiger, director of the ACS-LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project, told FTW Outdoors that Jean Huber and Christy Varni discovered the floating carcass at mid-morning less than a ...

According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...

The television was on, in the background, the other night. A programme about whales was being shown. I happened to glance up from my book at one stage and saw a dead whale being spilt open. His vast ...