Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

Discover 10 lesser-known facts about the blue whale, the largest animal on Earth. Learn about its diet, communication, ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

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

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

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

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Researchers collected DNA samples from the distinctive bite wounds on the shark’s body that washed ashore near Portland, ...