Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

The 50-foot-long dead sperm whale that washed up Sunday on Nantucket will be taken back to sea to decompose for safety ...

On a calm morning in May, Brianna Beaulieu, a doctoral student in marine biology at the University of Western Australia, and several researchers from around the world boarded two research vessels ...

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...

A dead sperm whale weighing more than 100,000 pounds washed up on a Nantucket beach, but a local nonprofit says it can't be ...

Officials have left the whale on the beach since Sunday, because at more than 100,000 pounds it is simply too big to move ...

Whales carry tons of nutrients in their pee thousands of miles across the oceans. © Martin van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In 2010, two researchers in the U.S ...

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 ...

Two decades ago, India’s whale sharks were hunted and misunderstood. Today, thanks to an ambitious conservation effort led by ...

How do you give a whale a health checkup? Scientists have been collecting respiratory droplets from North Atlantic right ...

Right whales, still recovering from intensive whale hunting, have added a few more individuals to their small population.