Groundbreaking research in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary is revealing that communication among whales is far ...

New research in the Strait of Gibraltar captured dozens of vocalizations from an endangered subpopulation of killer whales ...

Once driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling, southern right whales slowly returned to Australian coastlines ...

The tide has turned on the conservation success story of the southern right whale. Once considered a global conservation ...

Each year, whales migrate to and from feeding and breeding grounds. Gray whales, North Atlantic right whales, and blue whales ...

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 ...

Southern right whales are having fewer calves as sea ice shrinks. Scientists say this species may now be a warning sign of climate change.

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora’s whale-surfing joyride. Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia ...

Each winter, humpback whales return to Hawaiʻi’s warm waters to breed and give birth, drawing both visitors and volunteers to shorelines across the islands.

Songs have lowered in frequency, in part because of changes to ocean water. Whales in the ocean around Antarctica are changing their tune, according to a new study. Publishing their findings in the ...

The dead right whale was a female. Scientists say they worry especially about deaths of females because the species is ...