Did you know that many animals have much longer lifespans than humans? Greenland sharks, bowhead whales, koi, and red sea urchins may all live hundreds of years. A clam called the ocean quahog has ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water ...

Addison Shea's research project involving Bowhead whales earns place in weeklong STEM competition for more than $1.8 million ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

Research methods in this project included healing Kauri trees through using "sonic samples of healthy whales to construct a tapestry of rejuvenation and wellbeing.” Commenting on this ...

Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater ... undersea pinnacles and seamounts enhance the availability of food sources such as plankton. Interestingly, the same phenomenon appears to occur ...

A recent decision by the U.S. government to drop a proposed rule aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales is "incredibly disappointing" to a Massachusetts-based conservationist. " ...

Sperm whales and bowhead whales had also been seen off the Cornish coast, she added.

The whales seem to have found a food source in the area that they like. But O'Brien says there have now been multiple instances in the past year where they've found large gatherings of whales in ...