Federal officials say there have been more whale entanglements reported in the state this season than ever before.

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

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

A new study revealed that whales support tropical ecosystems by transporting vital nutrients across vast ocean from Alaska to ...

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

“Beyond urine, whale carcasses also serve as nutrient deposits. When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor, ...

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

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

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For example, humpbacks in the North Pacific migrate annually from the Gulf of Alaska to the coast of Hawaii. Using publicly available data, researchers estimated that in a given year the whales ...