The U.S. Coast Guard issued a marine safety bulletin on Feb. 6 advising mariners to move through the area with caution and to report any sightings while state and federal teams decide whether to let ...

Recovering humpback whale populations are revealing a hidden shift: older males are increasingly outcompeting younger rivals to father calves.

Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off Australia’s southern coast are having calves less often than they used to. A ...

New research from the University of St Andrews published in Current Biology has shown that the role of age in male humpback ...

Scientists following humpback whales once brought to the brink of extinction in the South Pacific made a fascinating discovery: Older males were more likely to become fathers and younger males were ...

See the amazing winning entries from winner from the Underwater Photographer of the Year featuring playful seals, inside the ...

Wind and ocean conditions recently moved the sperm whale remains to a lava flat along the Kona Coast on the west side of the island, where large predators such as tiger sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks ...

A newborn sperm whale calf, the youngest ever recorded in England and Wales, has been discovered dead on a scenic beach in ...

A long-term study using DNA from whale scat has revealed surprising complexity in the diets of southern Alaska’s fish-eating killer whales.

In deep, tropical offshore waters, there exists a whale that’s roughly the size of a dolphin. Sightings of it are extremely rare, and few people have captured it on film. Despite its small size, it ...

Personnel of Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape (SBPS) have assessed and eventually buried a 12.3 meter female sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) ...

The cause of death has yet to be determined; experts from the University of Haifa and the Delphis Association for Marine ...