A new study led by McGill University researchers indicates that humpback whales in the southeastern Pacific combine real-time ...

Maralyn and Maurice Bailey's boat sank when it was hit by a whale in the Pacific Ocean on 4 March 1973, and after their food ...

False killer whales - which are in fact a dolphin - are typically deep-sea dwellers, and are one of the rarest marine mammals ...

Eavesdropping on baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean reveals year-to-year variations that track changes in the availability of the species they forage on, reports a new study led by John Ryan ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

— Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

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

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt ... For example, humpbacks in the North Pacific migrate annually from the Gulf of Alaska to the ...