A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing ...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth, with some mature adults reaching 100 feet and tipping the scales up to 200 tons.

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

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

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 ...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. The largest of these giants was a true behemoth, equaling the ...

A new first-of-its kind study found the marine mammals vocalised less after a marine heat wave decimated their prey, making whale songs a barometer of the effects of climate change on ocean ecosystems ...

The ocean absorbs nearly a third of the world ... food source recovered from the marine heat wave, detections of blue whale singing soared. When krill numbers fell again, so did the whales ...

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly reduced after intense hunting in the twentieth century. "There's basic things that we don't know about them, like where their ...