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

Ryan said that given how important singing is to whales’ reproduction, social interactions and foraging, their silence signals trouble. A whale has no energy for song “if it’s harder to gather the ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

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

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

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

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – Results show that the 10th annual season of the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

A new study by Trevor Branch, a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, suggests a hypothesis to explain why ...

Federal and provincial governments announced the Saguenay-Saint-Laurent Marine Park could reach a total size of 4,500 square ...