In wonderful Cape Town, reporter Richard Price searched out whales and tasted delicious wines whilst looking out at exquisite ...

Explore the enchanting dorpies of South Africa this autumn, from historical havens to coastal bliss, and discover the perfect ...

Instead, Stanford invites you to do exactly what it has been doing while its neighbours became frantically concerned with being capitals of the world; sit back and observe.

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.

For too long, Humpback whales' urinary contributions to the ocean have been overlooked. Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale ...

A humpback whale and her calf are two of thousands of whales who create a newly discovered "conveyor belt," carrying huge quantities of critical nutrients from high latitudes to the tropics. (Credit: ...

Even for the world’s largest animals, “when you gotta go, you gotta go.” Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological information and nutrients for the ocean. Not to be ...

Researchers found that the whales had brought more nitrogen from their feeding grounds than the ocean’s natural processes (Alamy/PA) Whales transport vital nutrients from urine, placentas ...

Since so little is understood about this whale species, researchers like O’Corry-Crowe and his colleagues are working diligently to conduct studies to document narwhals’ unknown behaviors to ...

Two humpback whales feed in Beaufort Sea, northeast of Point Barrow. (Kate Stafford) Catching salmon in the North Slope village of Kaktovik was unheard of not too long ago. But resident Robert ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle on Sunday by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. The pod of Bigg ...