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 ...

University of Miami researchers with the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science say great whites are like snowbirds seeking warmth. They migrate through the Atlantic to get to the Gulf of ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

Whale Watching Week means better views and nicer weather to see gray whales. However, gray whale calf numbers are at historic ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

The gray whales are on their annual migration path between breeding grounds in Mexico and feeding grounds off the coast of ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt ... on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales ...

A pair of adult female right whales are still roaming around off Florida's west coast while calving off the Atlantic Coast continues.