The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

Antarctica is Earth's only uninhabited continent, home to the South Pole, and subject to a delicate balance of cooperation ...

In the summer, adult whales feed at high latitudes (like Alaska, Iceland, and Antarctica), putting on tons of fat, chowing ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

South Georgia has been in the headlines after the world's largest iceberg ran aground off its coast amid concerns it could ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

An aerial survey team from the Florida-based Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute spotted the killer whale near ...

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...