Researchers have identified ginkgo-toothed beaked whales alive at sea for the first time after years of searching, and in ...

Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the ...

This gave rise to Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a 50-plus-person team of marine biologists, A.I. experts, ...

Orca Channel photographer Krisztina Balotay captured some of the first-ever images of a killer whale birth while on a ...

A limited necropsy of a 52-ton sperm whale that washed up on Nantucket was conducted Nov. 21. What was found, and where were ...

A dead sperm whale weighing more than 100,000 pounds washed up on a Nantucket beach, but a local nonprofit says it can't be ...

A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could ...

Scientists and Nantucket officials are trying to figure out what to do about a huge whale that washed up on the island.

The town of Nantucket has announced how it plans to deal with a 52-ton dead sperm whale that washed up on the Massachusetts ...

A new study published today in The ISME Journal marks the first time scientists have shown a connection between respiratory microbes and the health of a free-ranging whale population. The study, ...

Nowhere in the ocean is now left untouched by a type of "forever chemicals" called "per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances," ...

YACHATS, Ore. — Officials are asking folks to stay away from a whale near San Marine that beached on Saturday night when it reportedly got tied up in fishing line. NOAA Fisheries, the Oregon Marine ...