Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. The largest of these giants was a true behemoth, equaling the ...

New York City’s waterways are running red as fatal boat strikes become a growing threat to the booming marine life population ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

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

“Recently, we demonstrated how much commercial whaling impacted nutrient recycling by whales in their feeding grounds, and ...

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

An endangered North Atlantic right whale, swimming in the Gulf off the Fort Myers, Florida coast, was captured on video by ...

Did you know that whales help keep the ocean healthy by spreading nutrients far and wide? These massive creatures don’t just ...

North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered, and only about 70 reproductively active females remain.

A group of whale watchers, look in horror as a huge humpback whale emerges from the water and swallows two kayakers whole!

Specifically, they feed in deeper waters and then release "flocculent fecal plumes" (i.e., feces) at the surface, serving as a kind of "whale pump" that boosts plankton growth, among other ...

The endangered whales visit Bay each year, where researchers count and track them, hoping the species returns from the brink ...