Heartbreaking footage has surfaced showing a humpback whale calf struggling to free itself from a netting that seems ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

Federal officials say there have been more whale entanglements reported in the state this season than ever before.

A new study revealed that whales support tropical ecosystems by transporting vital nutrients across vast ocean from Alaska to ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

There, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, the input of nutrients from whales roughly double ...

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

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 ...

Did you know that whales help keep the ocean healthy by spreading nutrients far and wide? These massive creatures don’t just ...

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

Thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii, where they breed. There, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale ...