Barnacles are more than ship pests. Learn how they filter water, feed predators, build habitat, and affect animals and ships.

Authorities are looking for a juvenile humpback whale last seen entangled in rope off the coast near Wilsons Promontory.

Brevard Zoo is treating about 45 cold-stunned sea turtles rescued from the Indian River Lagoon. The turtles were weakened after water temperatures dropped during a recent freeze and are being warmed ...

Whales sing loud enough that the sound travels through the ocean. But how they do that has been a mystery. A new study says whales have a specialized voice box that isn't seen in other animals. The ...

New Bitcoin whales currently face 22% in unrealized losses, and with Binance whale inflows increasing, it could be a sign that these shorter-term holders may become sellers.

Fish-eating killer whales in southern Alaska have a diverse, seasonally changing diet featuring salmon and groundfish, ...

Baleen is a flexible, keratin-based filtering system that allows whales to feed on massive amounts of tiny prey efficiently. Different baleen shapes and sizes reflect different feeding strategies, ...

While killer whales (Orcinus orca) can trigger the immediate departure of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), extended absences from their aggregation sites are also part of the sharks' natural ...

A dead 50-foot fin whale washed ashore Friday on an Ocean County beach, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. The ...

This month, researchers board a Sea Shepherd vessel in Antarctica's South Orkney Islands to study the overlap between krill ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the largest animal that’s ever existed on Earth—and that includes dinosaurs.

Learn more about how whales communicate and how researchers are working to find out if humans and whales could one day communicate with each other. Whales are some of the most highly intelligent ...