In July 1848, Thomas Roys, master of the whaling ship Superior, out of Sag Harbor, New York, sailed north through the Bering ...

Scientists have been aware for some time that whales contribute to marine ecosystems by "recycling" nutrients. However, the ...

Due to its vast size — stretching from Canada and Greenland in the north, to Mexico in the south — North America contains a ...

The ocean is anything but quiet with animals making a variety of unique sounds, but what happens when the ocean gets too loud ...

Southern right whales are one of the three species of right whales worldwide. All belong to the baleen whale group – the filter-feeding giants that include the blue, humpback and fin whales. Reaching ...

Slaughter for oil and baleen may have eased but there is a new threat... with the melting of Arctic ice, ship traffic is increasing and these slow-moving giants are being run down by ships ...

The canoer was 2.5 miles off the Encinitas coast when he experienced an up-close encounter from one of the ocean's greats.

Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...