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 ...

(CN) — Multiple conservation groups sent notice Thursday of plans to sue the Trump administration for stripping away expanded ...

A harp seal dubbed Polaris was rescued by Whale and Dolphin Conservation last month at Nantasket Beach in Hull.

WASHINGTON— Several conservation groups sent notice today of their intent to sue the Trump administration for stripping away measures aimed at protecting the critically endangered Rice’s whale from ...

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

Because of their size, whales are able to do things that no other animal does.” View on euronews ...

A young pygmy killer whale — a rare type of dolphin — was recently rescued after becoming stranded on a shore in South America. The incident occurred on March 18 in Buxton, Guyana — a small town ...

Cameron Selck flips over a crab that had landed upside down in a crate at Half Moon Bay’s Pillar Point Harbor. Keeping the crabs upright is important to keep them alive and fresh. Photo by Anna ...

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to ...

What better way to track whales than listening in on them? Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed ...

The whales, which have distinctively long tusks, were filmed in the Arctic chasing a fish in what seemed like a ...

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