There are plenty of ways people from South Florida can help protect and conserve the oceans and marine life, but Florida ...

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

The 30-foot whale, believed to be a humpback, came onto shore at about 3 p.m. between the Newport and Balboa piers ...

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

This traveling exhibition features a life-sized blue whale skeleton, a full-scale heart model, hands-on games, and interactive experiences.

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.

A dead whale sinking to the ocean floor creates a unique deep-sea ecosystem.: this whale fall provides food for scavengers, then enriches sediments for other creatures. Finally, bacteria in bones ...

Groundbreaking research is revealing that communication among whales is far more complex and sophisticated than previously ...

Scientists in Falmouth stumbled upon a disc from 1949 with audio of a whale sounding like it’s singing, and they say<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Seventy-seven years after its recording, WHOI recovered what could be the first humpback whale song captured on audio. It was labeled "fish noises." ...

How can a creature of such enormous size and long-distance migratory behavior cope with a spine twisted in multiple directions? (Whale shark with the spinal deformity not pictured.) Photo by Jenna ...