How do you give a whale a pregnancy test? This sounds like a joke, but it is not. At the New England Aquarium in Boston, scientists found an unusual method for confirming whale pregnancies - a ...

It is common knowledge that whales are the largest animals on the planet. Among these, the Blue Whale tops the list. The adults are about 30m and weigh around 200 tonnes. Imagine how much food they ...

an important role in the marine environment and climate change through the carbon cycle, but their overall numbers are declining due to whaling and other factors. A project to prevent ecosystem ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of up to 100 feet (30 meters) long. Blue whales and ...

To sustain their huge bodies, blue whales, which are the largest creatures on Earth, feed on huge amounts of krill. A hundred ...

An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

A Newfoundland man made news with his creative photography of a dead sperm whale this week, but one whale expert says the viral video has more value than simple entertainment. Hal Whitehead, a ...

Hal Whitehead, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, says videos of sperm whale carcasses, like the one taken in Newfoundland this week, can help scientists figure out where to locate ...