Famed for whale sharks, Ningaloo is also a safe nursery forlactating humpback whales and their newborn calves.

False killer whales - which are in fact a dolphin - are typically deep-sea dwellers, and are one of the rarest marine mammals ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

The marine animal had surfaced momentarily to catch a breath when the diver identified it as the perfect opportunity to take ...

The ocean is an incredible yet nerve-wracking world unto itself. Its unexplored depths are home to creatures still unknown to ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

New findings suggest the evolution and behavior of at least some baleen whales has been significantly shaped by fear of orca attack.

For too long, Humpback whales' urinary contributions to the ocean have been overlooked. Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale ...

Find out how baleen whale feces and urine contribute to the ocean‘s health. The study suggests that these marine mammals are even better at transferring chemical elements from one part of the ...