To get a glimpse of how whales communicate, the new study explored 12 bubble ring production episodes that were obtained by citizen scientists and researchers. These events involved 39 bubble rings ...

Five gray whales have been found dead in the San Francisco Bay Area in less than one week, according to the California Academy of Sciences. That means 14 whales in total have died since the ...

Five gray whales have died in the greater Bay Area over the past week, bringing the region’s 2025 whale death toll to 14, officials announced Wednesday. Alyssa Goard reports the latest details.

Gray whales lost more than 40% of their population in four years, Rulli said. During this time, there were 347 gray whale strandings in the United States, according to NOAA.

Schulman-Janiger and other researchers aren't sure why the whales are dying, although she and others believe it could be from lack of food based on the depleted conditions in which some of the ...

Gray whales are dying off the Pacific Coast again, and scientists aren’t sure why A gray whale pushes her calf to the surface in Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico, on Feb. 21, 2021.

Whales are not just big, they're a big deal for healthy oceans. Whale poo is responsible for moving tonnes of nutrients from deep water up to the surface.

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean ...

Humpback whales emerge from this study as a particularly resilient species. They are more able to readily adapt to changes in the ecology of the foraging habitats that sustain them.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen ...

Right whales have been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act since 1970. The North Atlantic right whale population is estimated at just 372, only 70 of which are breeding females.

Earlier in December, another right whale, named "Minus One," and her newborn calf were spotted off the coast of Amelia Island. The North Atlantic right whale is among the most endangered of the ...