After a massive sperm whale washed ashore on Nantucket, responders are examining it and making plans for what comes next.

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

Hawaiʻi’s offshore waters host roughly 8,000 short-finned pilot whales. On an ecosystem scale, their collective appetite is ...

Professor Jonathan Wittenberg used this model of sperm whale myoglobin structure as a teaching tool at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in the Bronx. It was used beginning ...

Study reveals that sperm whales may “speak” using structured vowel patterns, bringing scientists closer to decoding their ...

Scientists using AI have decoded a human-like communication system in sperm whales. The study reveals vowel-like sounds, ...

Scientists have spent the last five years observing sperm whale communication and behaviors using tags, buoys and drones. They’ve finally begun to learn how whales use calls for communication.

Scientists tracking humpback whales have captured rare footage showing the freeloading fish peeling away from their host in a ...

Close encounters between humans and whales are rare, but they do happen. While most of these incidents end with awe and a ...

Scientists have captured rare footage of remoras, also known as sucker fish, hitching rides on humpback whales off the coast of Australia. Remoras use an adhesive plate on their heads to cling to ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora’s whale-surfing joyride. Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia ...