Scientists studying stranded pygmy sperm whales have uncovered three previously unknown genotypes of Helicobacter bacteria ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.

Whale sharks are not just a species but a 'living ecosystem,' according to experts.

Scientists in Sonora are searching for clues about what happened to missing whale populations — and what the creatures that ...

The Gulf Coast Whale Festival returns to Pensacola this weekend, highlighting Rice’s whales — a critically endangered species found only in the Gulf of Mexico about 60 miles south of the Florida ...

Researchers in Australia have significant concerns about local humpback whale populations in the Southern Ocean due to recent shifts in migration patterns. The University of Queensland found that the ...

Warming ocean waters are shrinking whale feeding areas and increasing entanglement risk along the U.S. West Coast.

Wind and ocean conditions recently moved the sperm whale remains to a lava flat along the Kona Coast on the west side of the island, where large predators such as tiger sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The waters off California have grown quieter, and scientists are listening. New research from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research ...