When paddleboarding in the ocean, you never know what kind of animals you’ll encounter. But we’re guessing that getting a ...

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, ...

Entanglement is a top threat for all large baleen whales on Canada’s coasts, including humpbacks, minke, blue and fin whales.

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

Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a ...

Canada has rolled out its overdue whale-safe fishing gear strategy days after an endangered North Atlantic right whale, known as Division, died from entanglement after more than a month of suffering.

Currently, large ships are required to slow down at certain times to avoid collisions, which is a leading cause of death for ...

Longer stints between southern right whale babies are sounding the alarm bells for all species reliant on krill and a healthy ...

Editor: I thank David Haynes for prompting deeper krill research ( “Blame overfishing, not climate change, for loss of whales,” Letters, Feb. 2). He is right that krill are vital to ocean health, ...

Canada has rolled out its overdue whale-safe fishing gear strategy days after an endangered North Atlantic right whale, known as Division, died from e.