A 2014 study, published in PLOS ONE, used satellite-linked tags to follow the dives of eight beaked whales off the southern California coast. The deepest recorded dive was 2,992 metres and the longest ...

One marine mammal has been documented diving as deep as 9,816 feet — equivalent to the depth of over 30 Statues of Liberty stacked on top of one another. When you purchase through links on our ...

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

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A whale on the Boston Harbor City Cruise’s whale watch takes a deep, fluking dive to hunt. Behind the whale is the outline of the bubble net used to reign in prey. – Izzy Bryars.

While deep-diving whales have been around for a long time, plastic garbage reached their world only in the last decades. “These items are fairly new in their environment,” Savoca says.

To find food in the dark, deep-diving whales, like sperm whales, pygmy sperm whales and goose-beaked whales, send out clicks and buzzes from a vocal cord-like structure near their blowholes. These ...