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 massive migration of eastern North Pacific gray whales — the longest mammalian migration in the world — sees thousands of ...

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 ...

Some critters active stealth mode: octopuses blend into their background using camouflage while pygmy sperm whales spurt dark red intestinal fluid into the water, like a smokescreen, to give them a ...

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 ...