New research has demonstrated how shifting climates are disrupting the diets of multiple whale species. What's happening? The study, published in the journal Frontiers, used 28 ye ...
A University of Vermont-led study has forced marine biologists to rethink how whales shape ocean chemistry, showing that these animals transport enormous quantities of nutrients horizontally across ...
The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands ...
Hidden inside that snot are clues as to how changes in the environment could affect the immune system of beluga whales and their resiliency to climate change.
MIAMI — The relationship between whales and dolphins has long been shrouded in mystery. But, new research reveals that — despite their vast difference in size — these marine mammals often enjoy ...
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 ...
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 ...
A widely publicized killer whale attack once seemed to explain why white sharks disappeared from a key aggregation site. Long-term tracking now suggests the reality is more nuanced. Killer whales (Orc ...
While killer whales (Orcinus orca) can trigger the immediate departure of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), extended absences from their aggregation sites are also part of the sharks' natural ...