Whales are among the loudest animals on Earth, but even they can be susceptible to harm from excessive or overly loud noise in the ocean. Scientists have measured blue whales calls as loud as 190 ...

Blue whales are the largest animals on the planet. They are powerful swimmers that migrate long distances to feed and breed, ...

"This is the new normal." Researchers issue warning over disturbing trend among whales and dolphins: 'Globally unprecedented' ...

Blue whales, the Earth's largest animal, have gone silent, a development that has scientists worried about the future of the ...

A new digital platform, Blue Corridors, showcases 30 years of tracking data revealing global whale migrations and mounting ...

How humanity’s ear-splitting racket deafens whales and other marine animals A whale rises from the ocean off San Pedro in August 2016.

A humpback whale has stunned scientists with a journey that spanned three oceans and more than 8,000 miles, setting the record for the longest known migration between breeding grounds.

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of up to 100 feet (30 meters) long. Blue whales ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

Rising human exploitation of the oceans is pushing ever further into regions that scientists increasingly suspect are full of conscious life. New research into creatures from sperm whales to o… ...

The creatures, which ranged in size from that of a fox to more than 50 feet long, divided their time between the coast and ...

Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems, a new book from the University of California Press (December 2006), explores an aspect of whale ecology that until now has received surprisingly little attention ...