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 ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

Satellites confirm Calanus finmarchicus, crucial for North Atlantic right whales, sustaining their survival amid dwindling ...

Off the New England coast, critically endangered whales are feeding on invisible swarms of red plankton—now suddenly visible ...

One of Utah's most popular art pieces — "Out of the Blue," better known as the 9th and 9th whale — is getting an update. Here's why.

A chance encounter at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has led to the restoration of a long-time, massive display of ...

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest cetacean on the planet. While some have claimed that there were ...

It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of ...

In the ocean, different animals have their own unique self-defence strategies to help them survive predators. Some, like ...

When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

The oceans are not as safe as we thought: new research reveals that even the most remote marine mammals are contaminated with toxic pollutants, threatening ocean ecosystems. Marine biologists have ...

Ocean Wise and Trelleborg Marine and Infrastructure announced an advancement in marine mammal protection through the international expansion of Ocean Wise’s Whale Report Alert System (WRAS), a ...