Even for the world’s largest animals, “when you gotta go, you gotta go.” Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological information and nutrients for the ocean. Not to be ...

This includes some of the whale species that frequent the Salish Sea. So when whales go viral in other parts of the world, like the man who was recently swallowed and spit out by a humpback whale ...

A humpback whale and her calf are two of thousands of whales who create a newly discovered "conveyor belt," carrying huge quantities of critical nutrients from high latitudes to the tropics. (Credit: ...

A team has used a process known as DNA origami to make electrochemical sensors that can quickly detect and measure biomarkers. Using an approach called DNA origami, scientists at Caltech have ...

Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales that stranded on a remote beach on Australia's island state of Tasmania, officials said on Wednesday. Experts ...

At least three orca whales were spotted swimming through Bellingham Bay on Tuesday. Bellingham resident Nate Wallace captured a video of the whales at about 4:30 p.m. as they were swimming south ...

MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — A pair of fishermen said they spotted two right whales off the coast of Pinellas County Sunday evening. Derek Gaines was fishing with his father outside of John’s ...

Researchers found that the whales had brought more nitrogen from their feeding grounds than the ocean’s natural processes (Alamy/PA) Whales transport vital nutrients from urine, placentas ...

More than 150 false killer whales have been stranded on a remote beach in Tasmania. It is the third mass stranding in the last five years on the west coast of the Australian island. Officials said ...