An international team of biologists, led by Wageningen University & Research, has demonstrated that predators have a direct ...

The latest addition is the Marine Organizational Body Size (MOBS) database, an open-access resource that—as its name ...

Despite not having bones, sharks can grow pretty large. There’s the aforementioned whale shark, roughly the size of a bowling ...

Local residents rushed to the docks in Portland to see two southern right whales that had ... unlike their northern cousins, the southern species was in good shape. Research from the University ...

Thousands of gray whales ... in poor shape last fall when they began their 12,000-mile migration to breeding and calving grounds off the coast of Mexico. Now, early reports of their northern ...

Belugas are well adapted to life in northern ... whales upright while swimming. But for belugas, which swim close under ice, a dorsal fin might be more of a hindrance than a help. Instead, they hav a ...

The Meg was shaped more like a whale than the giant great white shark ... t just about getting bigger- it’s about evolving the right body to survive at that scale. “And megalodon may have ...

Pregnant female right whales migrate from northern feeding grounds to their ... short pectoral fins and v-shaped blow holes. Their tails are wide with deep notches and their bellies are black ...

Researchers with the nonprofit Ocean Wise in Victoria, British Columbia, say they can use drone photos to spot pregnant orcas by their body shape ... the northern resident killer whales ...

The tour agency said its team counted 33 gray whales, 1,500-plus Risso's dolphins and three northern right whale dolphins ... curved, sickle-shaped dorsal fin located mid-way down their back." ...

and paddle-shaped. Their heads have knobby white patches of rough skin, called callosities, which appear white because of whale lice covering their otherwise black skin. Each right whale has a ...