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

The other day, an article in Popular Mechanics (of all things) caught my attention. It described how scientists are making ...

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.

Findings suggest that humpbacks are the only mammals other than humans to possess this ability. “It’s kind of a bizarre ...

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, inexperienced target guarded by a single adult. However, orcas cannot reach ...

Strolling a familiar beach and stumbling upon a relic from the age of dinosaurs sounds like pure fantasy, yet that is exactly what happened on England’s west coast. A stretch of shoreline below ...

This restaurant serves up drama with every course, courtesy of crashing waves, migrating whales, and seafood that tastes like ...

Four decades after the global whaling ban, some whale species are rebounding, but ship strikes and bycatch still threaten their recovery.

From whale songs to lion roars, animals have evolved to stretch their voices across distances so that friends—and sometimes foes—can hear them. Each sound is coded with messages like "Come here!" ...

Animals are noisy. And their noises can travel a long way.Author Ben JJ Walker Researcher, UNSW Sydney But making sounds can be a double-edged ...