A new study led by McGill University researchers indicates that humpback whales in the southeastern Pacific combine real-time ...

Climate change is also driving penguins to colonize new areas, or to stay in regions longer than they normally would, ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Timo Dersch had a close call with a humpback whale while freediving with orcas in the waters surrounding Norway ...

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and their colleagues analyzed whale songs recorded by ...

Ryan and his colleagues analyzed data from a long-running NOAA survey of krill, anchovies and other whale favorites to match the prevalence of prey to the songs’ volume. Researchers also ...

The study suggests that even the faintest hint of penguin droppings in the water is enough to prompt krill into escape ...

It devastated populations of krill, anchovies and sardines that the cetaceans eat. "The whales all exhibited the lowest levels of song when conditions were the worst,” but vocalized more when ...

Given the range of predators that regularly feed on krill, the team theorizes they likely exhibit similar behavior in the presence of seals, whales, and other Antarctic predators. As climate ...

They further compared data collected by NOAA in its long-standing survey of whales' prey including krill and anchovies in order to see how the rate of whale song is related to their prey numbers.

Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's ...