You may think that since sharks have noses, they use them for breathing. However, unlike mammals, they use them only to smell ...

The vocalisation of a dwarf minke whale sounds so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.

North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered. Now, they're unexpectedly showing up in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Whales travel through the ocean, lunging, leaping, and playing, with grace and swiftness that belie their huge size. The ...

Humpback whales are some of the largest creatures on Earth and live in every one of the planet’s oceans. Their seasonal ...

At APL, a team is developing portable tech to detect ocean species using eDNA. Their goal: real-time, low-cost monitoring to ...

It's migration season. Find out where to go to spot humpbacks, orcas, dolphins and more on the Monterey County coast.

Many animals that live in water need to come up to the surface to breathe, but they can still spend impressive lengths of ...

Whereas humans breathe through their nose and mouth, whales have a blowhole on the top of their head—or two in the case of baleen whales. This is “like a nostril,” says Cunningham.

Whales are not fish, so they cannot breathe underwater. Instead, they use the blowholes on the top of their head to breathe air at the ocean's surface. Whales evolved from a deer-like land mammal ...