Whale carcasses sinking to the ocean floor bring a buffet of nutrients to the deep sea. But whales don’t have to be dead to ...

The importance of whale feces has been recognized for a long time, but now a study has demonstrated that migrating whales ...

Whales don't remain in the same location throughout the year. They migrate thousands of kilometres between their feeding and ...

Even biologists only capture a glimpse of the lives of whales. There are still many species whose lives are largely a mystery ...

Australia's population of southern right whales has experienced substantial growth since the late 1970s when they began to ...

The Benghazi Department of Antiquities is preparing to begin restoration and display work on a whale skeleton belonging to ...

The southern right whale species had the unfortunate habit of going close to shore, making them easy pickings for whalers.

But until now, another benefit that whales provided to ecosystems had not been quantified – that of urine. A recent study published in Nature Communications indicates that baleen whales’ urine ...