They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate with each other using high-pitched clicks and ...

Researchers observed a number of surprising behaviors by the ivory-sporting whales during an expedition with drones in the Canadian High Arctic.

The endangered whales visit Cape Cod Bay each year, where researchers count and track them, hoping the species returns from the brink of extinction.

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

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

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

A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. And the unusual spectacle was all caught ...