Ukrainian polar explorers from the National Antarctic Science Center have shared new footage from Antarctica that has once ...

While whales do need fresh water, they actually don’t need a huge amount, considering their size. This is largely because, in ...

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...

The population of the North Atlantic right whale is slowly climbing. What's behind the rise in numbers and what more can be ...

Apart from fossils, some animal species also testify to how big their predecessors were before evolution. Although many of ...

For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that ...

The rapid expansion, over-exploitation and subsequent decline in whale stocks in the northern hemisphere in the 20th century led to the search for new whaling grounds in the south, at which point ...

The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains ...

Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas. By Alexa Robles-Gil In northern Norway, scientists detected a disease-causing virus in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...

Killer whales and dolphins have been working together to hunt salmon in the northern Pacific Ocean, an unexpected finding that further reveals the complex social lives of marine mammals. Video cameras ...