The whales remained deep down, scooping up patches of zooplankton and straining out the seawater through the long strips of baleen in their mouths. Scooping and straining, scooping and straining. A ...

Female orcas go through menopause, living up to 90 years—a longstanding mystery. Now, a new study suggests there’s a reason why.

In short: A whale-tourism operator is concerned new whale nursery protection areas could bankrupt his business. If approved, approach limits for vessels would be increased from 100 to 300 metres.

It is part of an effort to evaluate the health of the whale population up north – and support subsistence in the area. Scientists and Iñupiaq hunters have been counting bowhead whales passing by the ...

The whale was about eight metres (25 feet) long, Jacobs said, indicating it was still "quite young". The rope appeared to be tangled around the whale's left pectoral fin, she said. "The way it is ...

Celebrate World Ocean Day with "In the Wake of Whales," a free video that dives into the captivating world of humpback whale migration and gives insights into the whales' journey to Hawaiʻi.

A team of scientists from the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis has documented, for the first time, humpback whales producing large bubble rings, like a human smoker blowing ...

Pygmy sperm whales are known to be “deep-diving cetaceans seldom seen near shore”, RAD KI said in a Facebook post. A goanna has been spotted eating a beached pygmy sperm whale on Kangaroo ...

Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on maintaining users’ privacy.

For more than 30 years, the Pacific Rim Whale Festival has celebrated the arrival of migrating grey whales to Canada’s wild west coast — the perfect introduction to a land rich in coastal ...

12. Some Whales Can Hold Their Breath for Over an Hour (image credits: unsplash) Imagine diving underwater and not coming up for air for over an hour. For whales, that’s just another day at the office ...