In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, some populations have been recovering faster than anyone imagined they ...

Whales returning to the warming waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the summer are sharing more food resources. The shift in diets is caused by climate change, affecting the kinds of prey fish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A humpback whale's tail emerges from the water on the St. Lawrence River. As climate change impacts the kinds of prey fish ...

Baleen is a flexible, keratin-based filtering system that allows whales to feed on massive amounts of tiny prey efficiently. Different baleen shapes and sizes reflect different feeding strategies, ...

Increasingly, some politicians and national delegations at fisheries organizations meetings argue that whale populations should be reduced because whales compete with human beings for ever-scarcer ...

A 13-day survey conducted in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) found a large variety of marine life living in the region, including sperm whales, Risso’s dolphins, and common dolphins. The University ...

Drone video of gray whales captured over seven years off Oregon has revealed new details about how the giant marine mammals find and eat food. Among the findings, described in two studies published ...

Short-finned pilot whales consume between 82 and 202 of the marine molluscs each every day off the coast of Hawai’i, according to the study. An international research team - made up of scientists from ...

Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...