The Department of Environment and Natural Resources [DENR] urges the public “to follow best practices for whale watching ...

A new study has found that whale songs can act as a barometer for the effects of climate change on ocean ecosystems.

In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly reduced after intense hunting in the 20th century. “ Both ...

Whales can be found in every ocean, with many species migrating long distances between their feeding and mating grounds, ...

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 ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

A recent study by Stony Brook University postdoctoral fellow Mason Youngblood revealed the complex efficiency of whale ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt ... of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

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