Australian surfer Jason Breen experienced a “one in a million” encounter while wing-foiling at Mona Vale Beach in Sydney when a breaching whale slammed ... captures “one in a million” moment whale ...

Once in the calving ground, roughly seven miles from shore, the boat crew keeps a lookout for signs of whales breaching the surface of the water. In tandem with the boat crew, an aerial survey team ...

A humpback whale breaching in Monterey Bay, California. Image by Dr. Mridula Srinivasan/NOAA via Flickr (CC BY-SA 4.0). The study also looked at the kinds of algae present in the blooms putting ...

It takes a day for Hori Parata (Ngātiwai) to dissect a whale. His tipuna have been doing this work for some 15 generations, and now his son does too. “We’re doing it because it’s a retrieval of ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

U.S. food delivery giant Grubhub says hackers accessed the personal details of customers and drivers after breaching its internal systems. Grubhub is a popular food-ordering and delivery platform ...

Up until the 1970s when mainly European nations, along with the United States, began to view whales as a “protected” species, the mammals caught for their oil, bones and meat were widely con ...

In a post-industrial whaling world, flagship and charismatic baleen whale species are indicators of the health of our oceans. However, traditional monitoring methods provide spatially and temporally ...

The recent autopsy of a partially devoured great white shark confirms a brutal hunting trend—killer whales around the world are not afraid to attack the fearsome fish, especially when they get a taste ...

“In some people’s view it wasn’t happening fast enough ... “Look at that,” he said with excitement in one video of a blue whale breaching the surface nearby. While he was out on ...