Recent studies, for instance, have applied forensic analyses of whale earwax to explore their ... and my own personal obsession—is the fish otolith, or ear bone (Ancient Greek: oto is ear ...

Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale nuzzles up to its mother. Then, a cloud of dark yellow urine gushes into the water ...

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 ...

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: ...

Thousands of whales were caught off its coasts and processed at a number of whaling stations - the scale of the slaughter such that the bays around the island were red with whale blood.

A NOAA photo of a Rice's whale—the species has lost some of its protections in the northern Gulf of Mexico. A NOAA photo of a Rice's whale—the species has lost some of its protections in the ...