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 ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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.

Two North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the Gulf Coast of Alabama recently in a rare encounter less than a mile away ...

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

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.

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

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

A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...