Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely on healthy oceans for food and livelihoods to support their families.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted splashing in waters off of New York City last week — ...

Researchers have witnessed behavior in the wild which could reveal critical clues about how the endangered whale shark reproduces.

Found in tropical waters across the globe, whale sharks can weigh up to 20.6 metric tons and measure as long as 18 meters. Despite their impressive size, they pose no threat to humans, surviving ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Chrissy Lovett had just opened Maui Ocean Adventures when a deadly wildfire swept through Lahaina in 2023, burning up the ...

Found in tropical waters across the globe, whale sharks can weigh up to 20.6 metric tons and measure as long as 18 meters. Despite their impressive size, they pose no threat to humans, surviving ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...