Over the last 30 years, stranding incidents have increased among all whale, dolphin, and porpoise species near Scotland, ...

After graduating high school, Glazer took a gap year to pursue her desire to explore the underwater world. While living on ...

Blue whales, the Earth's largest animal, have gone silent, a development that has scientists worried about the future of the ...

More than 15,000 images were submitted to the 2025 contest from around the globe. Penguins off the coast of Antarctica ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

Rising human exploitation of the oceans is pushing ever further into regions that scientists increasingly suspect are full of conscious life. New research into creatures from sperm whales to octopuses ...

LONDON — Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but knowing the mechanics behind that has been a mystery. Scientists now think they have an idea, and it’s something not ...

Sperm whales, denizens of the deep ocean, rely on sound for survival in their extreme environment. They produce the loudest ...

A blue whale was spotted off the coast of Massachusetts—an incredibly rare sighting that hasn’t happened in the area for over ...

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 ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...