Humpback whales are already known for complex songs, acoustic variety, and cooperative social structures. But the idea that they may initiate communication with humans voluntarily opens up a new ...

Five gray whales have been found dead in the San Francisco Bay Area in less than one week, according to the California Academy of Sciences. That means 14 whales in total have died since the ...

So far, 33 gray whales have been spotted in the area, compared to just four gray whale sightings in 2024. About one-third of the whales this year have stayed in the Bay for at least 20 days.

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd ...

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‘Ocean engineers': How warm temperatures impact whales and the oxygen in the air NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide ...

Gray whales are dying off the Pacific Coast again, and scientists aren’t sure why. A gray whale pushes her calf to the surface in Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico, on Feb. 21, 2021.

Whales, like most mammals, give birth to live babies . Whales give birth to one calf at a time. A whale calf stays in its mother's womb for between 10 and 16 months, depending on the species.

The findings are a window into the rich inner lives of whales – and allow us to check the health of the ocean. Whales sing when they’ve had a good meal – new research Home ...

The whales aren't the first to wander off course. Right whales have been seen off Florida's west coast and off Texas before, but it's unusual, whale experts said.

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Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen ...