New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

Aerial observers from the Center for Coastal Studies on Wednesday observed a North Atlantic right whale mother with her calf in Cape Cod Bay, approximately 5 miles west of Great Island, Wellfleet.

“Beyond urine, whale carcasses also serve as nutrient deposits. When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor, ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...

The Channel Islands are home to rocky cliffs, sandy beaches, wildlife – and very few visitors, finds Ellie Seymour ...

Dugongs are commonly known as "sea cows", due to their herbivorous diet, with adult dugongs consuming up to 30 kg of seagrass ...

Eavesdropping on whale songs has provided vital new information in the battle to protect the endangered species. Variations in detected whale songs are linked with shifting food sources for the ...

Teams of sea rescuers and wildlife experts successfully freed a whale that got caught in fishing nets near a popular Baltic Sea resort in Poland. It took about an hour for the rescuers to cut and ...