Last month, a blue whale was spotted off the coast in waters near Rhode Island by the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life — an “unusual occurrence” according to a NEAQ press ...

This year, the US parties hard with a big birthday, while the wild jungles that lie to its south lure new eyes. Boasting some of the largest remaining wilderness areas in the world, North and Central ...

Whale sharks are the largest species of fish on the planet. They are among the largest animals to have ever lived. Only blue whales, sperm whales, and humpback whales (all mammals) are larger. The ...

An environmental reporter joins a research team trying to attach recording devices to sperm whales, in hopes of decoding their calls.

On March 6, three orcas showed up in Canada’s Vancouver Harbour, later heading south to Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia, that ...

The song is that of a humpback whale, a marine giant beloved by whale watchers for its docile nature and spectacular leaps ...

Researchers on Cape Cod, Mass., recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help scientists understand how the animals communicate ...

Archivists and researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have unearthed a recording from the 1940s.

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

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!" ...