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Grays endure an epic roundtrip journey of 10,000 miles or more, and California holds a prime seat through May. Along with ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging ...

Following the global “Save the Whales” campaign and public outcry, hunting of these marine mammals stopped in all but a few ...

Scientists find deadly virus in Arctic whales using drones that collect whale breath, a breakthrough non-invasive method for ...

Standing between two racks of whale bones in the National Museum Collection Centre in Granton, Professor Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator ...

Between late October and March, Kakadu National Park transforms into something out of a dreamscape or a dramatic David ...

Watching a massive whale breach the surface of the ocean is a moment that stays with you forever, but you do not necessarily ...

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

After swimming about 60m, I notice a big, murky cloud. It’s blood, though it looks greenish in the water, and I realise that ...