A new study shows that as humpback whale populations recover from past whaling, older males are gaining a major advantage in reproduction. Early in the recovery, breeding groups were dominated by ...

Members of the Outer Banks Marine Mammal Stranding Network responded to reports of a stranded whale in South Nags Head on Sunday, March 1.

In 2022, a Russian whale researcher made a remarkable discovery on Bering Island off Russia's Pacific coast: a severed killer ...

Scuba diving in the ocean can be an otherworldly experience, as can the marvels waiting to be discovered. Imagine swimming along and being approached by a massive sperm whale, who furthermore would ...

This is due in no small part to man’s efforts. Essentially, the island is a low-lying heap of sand and gravel pushed south by the glaciers of the last Ice Age. And yet Nantucket is one of the places ...

A new study sheds light on the illuminating, sometimes counterintuitive dynamics of mating and how species survive.

The state Department of Land and Natural Resources is cautioning the public about the remains of a whale off the Kona coast.

An image of a pair of southern elephant seal pups has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026 contest. Matty ...

Wind and ocean conditions recently moved the sperm whale remains to a lava flat along the Kona Coast on the west side of the ...

The cause of death has yet to be determined; experts from the University of Haifa and the Delphis Association for Marine ...

The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands ...