Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When marine scientists put suction-cup cameras on humpback whales off Australia's east coast, they were trying to observe their ...

There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora’s whale-surfing joyride. Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia have captured rare footage that ...

Whales are being drawn to "feeding frenzies" within the Arctic Circle by warming waters, reveals new research. Baleen whales are taking advantage of a newly opened-up fish "bonanza" in the Greenland ...

A killer whale has been filmed doing something that looks almost cartoonishly violent: charging at a large ocean sunfish and hitting it with such speed and force that the fish detonates into a cloud o ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Many other whale populations aren’t as easy to study, so unsurprisingly we know less about how they’re doing. This is why a recent scientific paper ...

Sperm and northern bottlenose whales were frequently observed following a trawler off the coast of Newfoundland to feed on fish escaping from the net as it was hauled in, according to a study ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Gray whales put up such a fight against whalers and their boats they earned the nickname "devil fish." ...

Increasingly, some politicians and national delegations at fisheries organizations meetings argue that whale populations should be reduced because whales compete with human beings for ever-scarcer ...

The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation, leading researchers and conservation organizations said today as the ...

Killer whales are highly intelligent apex predators and have been known to play with their prey and deploy sophisticated tactics to ensnare them – Copyright AFP ...