A recent study from Ocean Wise, published in the journal Environmental DNA, shows that seawater containing environmental DNA, or eDNA, shed by an individual whale — also called fluke wake — can ...

For the past decade, our team has done research to gather baseline data on whales and dolphins in the New York Bight. These include fin whales, North Atlantic right whales, humpback whales, sei whales ...

Over 60% of whale sharks in Indonesia are scarred, most by boats and fishing platforms. Scientists say simple changes to gear ...

Rice’s whale is the only baleen whale species that lives year round in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in the continental ...

A new study reports that the Bird’s Head Seascape off Indonesia’s West Papua serves as a vital habitat for juvenile male ...

Long baleen whale mothers are more likely to have female calves than males, according to a new study led by the University of ...

The North Atlantic Right Whale is one of the most endangered whale species. One of their biggest threats are vessel strikes.

A Southern Resident killer whale has been spotted clinging to her dead baby in the Salish Sea off northern Washington, a conservation group said. J-36, also known as Alki, was seen Sept. 12 in the ...

The South Carolina man faces a mountain of fines for selling parts of whales. Here's what we know about the case ...

Scrolling through social media, you may have spotted content from a faux Keanu Reeves to Jim Carey channeling Jack Torrance or Nicholas Cage as everyone from Yoda and Dr. No, to the T-100 Robot from ...

Four out of five of the largest living fish species spotted at a marine tourism hotspot had “human-caused” scars. Conservationists found that 80.6% of whale sharks seen off Indonesian Papua in the ...