Researchers bring a SETI approach to the question of what—if anything—humpbacks’ underwater smoke rings might be trying to ...

"He is starting to show signs of poor health." Scientists alarmed after finding whale in heartbreaking predicament: 'I would ...

Commercial whaling, which began in Australia shortly after European colonisation and continued until 1978, had devastated ...

A collection of restaurants and eateries run by James Beard Award-winning Seattle chef Renee Erickson is set to close, with some locations closing either temporarily or permanently.

The bones also included either right whales or bowhead whales ... In addition to the bone fragments, he and his colleagues also found fragments of whale barnacles, which suggests ancient people used ...

A whale covered in thousands of barnacles faced serious health challenges before a diver stepped in to help in a dramatic rescue effort. The video captures the diver’s patient and precise work ...

Whale skin was also transported inland, evidenced by the discovery of whale barnacles at several sites ... However, some whale species in their sample, like gray whales and right whales, do come ...

North Pacific Right Whale (Eubalaena japonica) - The smooth-edged flukes showing more coronulid barnacles. NPRW4ever (Jim Scarff), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Whales, the largest mammals on ...

Callosities: Unique to right whales, these encrusted, barnacle-like rough patches of skin appear on the whales' lips and head. They serve as natural ID markers for researchers. Surface skimming ...

A humpback whale carcass reported floating off the coast of North Carolina by the Clearwater Marine Research Institute North Atlantic Right Whale ... baleen, and barnacles for future research ...

A rare sighting of an endangered North Atlantic right whale was filmed off the coast of Fort Myers, Florida. Anyone who spots a right whale is encouraged to report the sighting to the Coast Guard ...

A North Atlantic right whale was sighted with a calf in Florida waters over the weekend. The 21-year-old whale nicknamed Platypus and her calf Cashew were spotted from shore near Ormond Beach in ...