If you want to see a whale — from a distance — now is a good time to do it. Gray whales are migrating south from summer ...

Automated three-stage analysis pipeline sifts out whale calls from terabytes of distributed acoustic sensing data.

In the South China Sea, near the Paracel Islands, the aqua-colored waters of an expansive shallow reef platform suddenly ...

The species Orcinus orca, generally known as orcas or killer whales, is made up of many genetically distinct populations ...

From sinking boats and feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun, orcas are ...

Cetaceans are among the most intelligent creatures in the ocean and many whales have used their big brains to develop cunning ...

We've never had to buy a stocking stuffer for a gray whale, nor ask them what they'd like under the tree, nor dream up a ...

When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Read more about marine snow.

Scientists in the Arctic are catching the exhaled breaths of whales to better understand their health. How? Drones. Whales breathe through their blowholes, which are the equivalent of nostrils on ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

Bar Harbor isn’t just another dot on Maine’s coastline – it’s the exclamation point. Nestled on Mount Desert Island where the Atlantic Ocean meets rugged shoreline, this coastal gem manages to be both ...