Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are highly social, but those social ties can also help diseases spread through ...

For most mammals, growing up means giving up their mother’s milk. Then there are the sea lions of the Galápagos Islands.

For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that ...

Far off the New England coast, one of Earth’s rarest mammals is surviving on a food source so small it usually slips past ...

A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it? A blue whale swims near ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Led by Ocean Conservancy researchers, the paper is the most comprehensive study yet to quantify the extent to which a range of plastic ...