They’re the biggest fish in the sea, and it turns out they spend a remarkable amount of time foraging for food.

Scientists have studied the oceans for centuries, yet one marine giant has never once been seen alive by human eyes. Its ...

A minke whale washed up on Rocky Neck this weekend and the Seacoast Science Center Marine Mammal Rescue team is orchestrating efforts to perform a necropsy, or animal autopsy.

Lacking market opportunities, the last whaling company still in operation decided not to use its fishing quotas for 2024 and ...

A rarely seen North Atlantic right whale returned with a calf after years of limited sightings, raising questions about where ...

The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived on Earth, larger even than the biggest dinosaurs. At the center ...

AI could help humans decode animal communication by 2030, giving us a way to understand birds, whales and other creatures.

Researchers have long known that animals use sophisticated forms of communication, but the sheer volume of data involved has made it difficult to study these systems manually ...

Shedd Aquarium announced the deaths of two beluga whales on Sept. 2, one week after disclosing the loss of a third. Rain was a 20-year-old female who arrived from Marineland in August. Beethoven, a ...

AI advancements and biologgers could enable humans to understand animal communication by 2030, but ethical concerns about ...

A study tracking heartbeats in diving blue and humpback whales reveals a sprinter-like cardiac pattern behind their explosive ...

The thing that identified the animal was a single tooth, and it is the same feature that corrected the same mistake in ...