The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

New findings suggest the evolution and behavior of at least some baleen whales has been significantly shaped by fear of orca attack.

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

Over the years we’ve seen whales in the wild enough times that I thought we had pretty much done it all. Then I saw a friend’s striking photos from the annual gray whale migration to Mexico ...

A family spotted a gray whale breaching while exploring a beach near Coupeville ...

Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles -- in their urine -- from as far as Alaska to Hawaii. These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

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

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...