Whale sharks are the largest species of fish on the planet. They are among the largest animals to have ever lived. Only blue whales, sperm whales, and humpback whales (all mammals) are larger. The ...

The humpback whale song recording was taken near Bermuda in 1949. Scientists at Cape Cod-based WHOI found it in their archives in fall 2025.

The Mediterranean Sea is home to some of the ocean's largest animals. Among the nine species of cetaceans commonly found along its western shores are the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus, the world's ...

An environmental reporter joins a research team trying to attach recording devices to sperm whales, in hopes of decoding their calls.

Washington State now requires boats to stay 1,000 yards from Southern Resident killer whales, a rule effective in early 2025.

Scientists studying stranded pygmy sperm whales have uncovered three previously unknown genotypes of Helicobacter bacteria ...

Whale carcasses transform the deep sea into a vibrant ecosystem, offering a massive, decades-long feast for bizarre creatures. From hagfish and sharks stripping flesh to bone-eating worms and ...

Archivists and researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have unearthed a recording from the 1940s.

Meet a whale at Lovers Key. Florida’s Gulf waters are something extraordinary and most readers have likely never heard of the ...

A fossilized skull and jawbones found belonged to a crested dinosaur that lived 95 million years ago— the first new species ...

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways that can be considered str.