An animal ecologist researching large marine animals such as whales and dolphins, Assistant Professor Iwata Takashi of the ...

For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that whales evolved from aquatic creatures as the oceans warmed and became more ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

Fin, humpback, and minke whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence are eating more fish and less krill than they did in the past ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, supporting the health of tropical ecosystems and fish. UC Santa Cruz professors ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

According to a new study, whale urine is massively beneficial to oceans. In fact, without the gallons upon gallons of whale urine flowing through oceans today, ecosystems would not be as healthy, and ...

One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction.

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

In the fjords of northern British Columbia, the ocean can look calm from the surface, but underneath, the action is just ...

A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted in Cape Cod Bay over the weekend with fishing gear wrapped ...