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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

“Beyond urine, whale carcasses also serve as nutrient deposits. When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor, ...

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