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

Scientists say they have the first recorded video evidence of narwhals using tusks not only to strike and manipulate fish ...

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau ...

While this process would take decades or even centuries, the presence of a grey whale in the Atlantic is a hopeful sign that these animals are adapting to changing environmental conditions. The ...

They requested to resume in 1994, after gray whales had recovered and were taken off the endangered species list. They took one whale in the 1999 hunt, before it was shut down due to lawsuits and ...

We don't think of animals other than humans having an impact on a planetary scale, but the whales really do." Roman and team calculated that between them, just a few migrating baleen whale species – ...

Each year, the second grade students of Kristin Marquis at Crescent City Grade School receive an assignment to research an ...

A whale watching event will be held at 14 locations along the coastline, from Fort Stevens to Harris Beach (Cape Foulweather, ...