Context: Globally, the top two leading causes of mortality to whales are collisions with large vessels — known as ship strikes — and entanglements. One of the main goals of the program is to ...

For too long, Humpback whales' urinary contributions to the ocean have been overlooked. Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

One of the world's rarest whales finds itself in greater jeopardy ... we need to be pulling out all the stops.” Mashuda says ship strikes are one of the major threats to the species.

A pair of endangered North Atlantic right whales have finally been spotted again off Florida's west coast, and the good news is the right whales appear to be headed back to the right ocean.

Even for the world’s largest animals, “when you gotta go, you gotta go.” Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological information and nutrients for the ocean. Not to be ...

The Tampa Bay region has an unfortunate history with the Rice’s whale: In 2009, a ship motored into the bay with a dead whale draped across its bow. Scientists determined it was a female adult ...

Whale watching on a Baja Mexico cruise isn’t limited to excursions - you can often spot these magnificent creatures right ...

This includes some of the whale species that frequent the Salish Sea. So when whales go viral in other parts of the world, like the man who was recently swallowed and spit out by a humpback whale ...

A humpback whale and her calf are two of thousands of whales who create a newly discovered "conveyor belt," carrying huge quantities of critical nutrients from high latitudes to the tropics. (Credit: ...

It’s not an RPG. Its world isn’t as big. But Jump Ship, the upcoming co-op shooter from Keepsake Games, is built around this kind of flow. Sometimes you’re in dogfights like No Man’s Sky ...