By Ali Reza Ghasemi The 10th season of the Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies (BWBS) Program in 2024 achieved impressive environmental results: It reduced the risk of deadly ship strikes to ...

One NPR producer shared the story of Jack, a blue heeler mix, and Collette Yee, a bounder, in tracking down elusive whale ...

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed ... They have a thick layer of fat under their skin. This fat, ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

Baleen whales undertake some of the longest migrations of any mammal, traveling thousands of miles between nutrient-rich ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

Plus, the nutrient inputs of blue whales—the largest animals to ever live on the Earth—are not known and were not included in the primary calculations of the new study. In the Southern Ocean, blue ...

But in Abe Koogler’s “Deep Blue Sound,” it isn’t humanity that is first presented as the problem to the audience — it is the whales. The whales have gone missing. With such a premise being handed to ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

The long, spiral tusks of narwhals could be used by these Arctic whales to stun or even kill prey, according to wildlife researchers who have spied on these elusive creatures using drones.