A new study has found that whale songs can act as a barometer for the effects of climate change on ocean ecosystems.

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...

To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras. Rorquals are some of the largest whales on the planet including: blue, fin, and humpback whales. Lunge filter feeding involves ...

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the planet and the master of the open ocean. The aim of the Blue Planet II team was to capture an intimate family portrait of sperm whales ...

Blue whales might be some of the most iconic creatures on the planet, but for all their impressive features, there’s still plenty we don’t know about them. One particularly confounding mystery ...