This is the first time drone-based tagging has been employed for tracking the movements of pygmy blue whales.

Their dives can last more than two hours, during which they can descend to nearly 10,000 feet. Even when beaked whales ...

These three countries alone are suspected of killing nearly 45,000 whales since 1986, when commercial whaling was banned.

Last year, whales did not arrive in San Francisco Bay until Feb. 26. In 2024, the first sighting was on March 11; in 2023, ...

Pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) are among the ocean's most enigmatic inhabitants—rarely seen and largely unstudied. They live far offshore in small groups, diving in search of squid and fish.

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Once driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling, southern right whales slowly returned to Australian coastlines ...

What began as a 1970s whale-protection protest on California's coast has become a month-long celebration tied to gray whale migration with food and events.

Killer whales can scare white sharks away in the moment, but a 12-year study from South Australia shows that long disappearances from shark hotspots are often just part of the sharks’ natural rhythms.

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 ...