It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

When a right whale appeared trailing fishing gear in Cape Cod Bay Jan. 17, rescuers mobilized – underscoring challenges the ...

Standing between two racks of whale bones in the National Museum Collection Centre in Granton, Professor Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator ...

The worms have been named after Jeff Daniels, star of the seminal 1990 comedy-horror film “Arachnophobia.” The extinction of ...

Tiger sharks are typically solitary wanderers, and it wasn’t clear to scientists how they came together to reproduce. But as HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol reports, groundbreaking research from the ...

The color drained from Scott Fisher’s face when a member of the Maui Invasive Species Committee told him a little red fire ...

Beluga whales avoid inbreeding by switching partners over time, helping a small, isolated population stay genetically healthy ...

Anyone who spots the whale is urged to call the MAER hotline at 1-800-900-3622 or the U.S. Coast Guard on VHF Channel 16, the ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

New Canadian research, using decades of samples from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, shows that as Arctic krill becomes scarce, fin and minke whales are eating more of the kinds of fish that humpback whales ...

Researchers in Alaska have discovered that beluga whales have lots of different partners and this “mate switching” could be ...