Whale sharks are the largest species of fish on the planet. They are among the largest animals to have ever lived. Only blue ...

Sharks Can Smell a Drop of Blood from Miles Away The most persistent shark myth floating around is that these predators can ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a wooly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.

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Hawaiʻi’s offshore waters host roughly 8,000 short-finned pilot whales. On an ecosystem scale, their collective appetite is ...

New research has confirmed that West Coast transient killer whales who live between British Columbia and California are two distinct subpopulations: inner and outer coast transients.

While beached whales are not rare in Oregon, it’s uncommon to see healthy whales wash up alive. In a cruel irony, had the ...

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell the difference. Two adult sperm whales swim side by side in Dominica. The ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico have been spotted hunting young great white sharks by flipping them over to incapacitate them before eating their energy-filled liver, new ...

The Earth has been home to some truly colossal creatures, and among the giants that have roamed our planet since time ...

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in ...

Killer whales have been caught on camera hunting down and eating great white sharks alive. A shark-hunting pod of orcas was seen flipping their rival apex predators upside-down to paralyze them - ...