A cornerstone U.S. law that has protected whales, seals, and polar bears for over 50 years is under threat as Republican ...

One of the world’s largest mammals, the humpback whale is an incredible species for many reasons. They may even be the ocean’s protectors. Researchers have witnessed humpback whales intervening during ...

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75 per ...

The planet's biggest creature ever is also incredibly loud, long-lived, and endangered. Mysterious, enormous, and vital to our marine ecosystems, blue whales have been roaming our oceans for centuries ...

For the first time in recorded history, a group of bowhead whales has been spotted off the coast of British Columbia, far south of their typical Arctic habitat. Researchers from the University of ...

Nearly 2 million acres of water off Alaska's largest and busiest city were proposed Tuesday as critical habitat for beluga whales, raising concerns that the effort to save the whales will scuttle ...

Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.’s longest-standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with ...

A new study reports that the Bird’s Head Seascape off Indonesia’s West Papua serves as a vital habitat for juvenile male ...

Somewhere out there on the beautiful briny sea, the world's 50 or so remaining Rice's whales are breathing a collective sigh of relief, safe from the clutches of former Congressman Matt Gaetz. Gaetz ...

The death of a pregnant right whale that apparently was struck by a Navy ship off the Virginia coast and bled to death has prompted calls for speed limits for commercial and military ships along the ...

A brush with kelp may help some killer whales clean up nicely. The killer whales’ grooming habit was among the first things Michael Weiss and colleagues saw using a new drone with “really intense” ...