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

Carrying and looking after young is a demanding task, and bigger, longer females have more stored fat to tap for the job. The ...

Waters off California, Massachusetts, Alaska, and Hawaii saw a sharp rise in whale entanglements part of a nationwide ...

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

While orcas, also known as "killer whales," are a common sight in the northeast Pacific Ocean, they’re rarely detected in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, where little is understood about pods that swim ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taroko the whale shark was euthanized after his health declined at the Georgia Aquarium, officials announced. Screengrab from the Georgia Aquarium’s Facebook post After he was rescued from a seafood ...

Several hours after a dead whale washed up ashore in Playas de Tijuana, authorities managed to bury it in the sand on Tuesday. Activists say they currently do not know the cause of death, but they ...