The University of Washington conducted a study that offers more support to this claim, arguing that whale excrement holds ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

After a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler Beach, scientists look for a cause of death: 'Each ...

Whales are gathering in large numbers off New Jersey in a portion of the Atlantic Ocean called the New York Bight, according to several sources.

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

When certain algae flourish in the sea, they produce neurotoxins that can sicken both humans and marine animals. Acute ...

The UK’s Royal Navy launched a frantic search for phantom Russians off the coast after picking up two mysterious sounds in ...