No one ever says: “I can’t remember if I’ve seen a whale”. A close encounter with one of these larger-than-life leviathans is a life-changing experience. Over the past 40 years ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale ... [+] seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Some whale species evade killer whales by singing at deep frequencies that are “completely undetectable” to the predators, according to a new study. Photo from John Towner, UnSplash Some ...

Some baleen whale species are capable of evading orcas — their only known predators — by using stealth-like communication, according to new research. Specifically, the marine mammals can sing ...

Shea's project – "Bowhead Whale Migration Amid Changing Circulation Patterns in the Beaufort Gyre" – studied how a changing Arctic Ocean current coincided with whale migration patterns.