As if soaring above the brilliant blue ocean isn’t spectacular enough, the New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team recently ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

Learn why blue whale calves are prime orca targets and how their massive mothers use slipstreams, allies, and shockwaves to keep them alive.

The live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s beloved manga series returned for a second season on March 10. The new instalment revealed several new key characters that are key to the story moving ...

Q. You wrote that blue whales are the largest mammals. What are the largest and smallest animals of other groups? What ecological problems do animals confront by being extremely big or extremely small ...

In the vast blue expanses of our oceans, whales—Earth’s largest mammals—face a fundamental challenge that land mammals never encounter: how to sleep without drowning. Unlike humans who can ...

Seals and sea lions may look similar at first glance, but the differences between them are far more significant than most people realize. Both evolved from land-dwelling ancestors and adapted to life ...

ST. LOUIS—Science Center fans and visitors will soon be able to stand beside an 80-foot Blue Whale and hear surround-sound of its whale calls. The traveling "Blue Whale Story" exhibition will be in St ...

For decades, a thin plastic audio disc sat forgotten in an archive drawer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Recorded on March 7, 1949, near Bermuda, it had been labeled with vague notes ...

Scientists in Indonesia have tagged a pygmy blue whale for the first time using a drone. Data from the tag revealed a previously unknown path used by the species on its southern migration from ...

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