Some of these whales may live to 150. This lifespan is almost double the 70-80 years they are conventionally believed to live. North Atlantic right whales were also thought to have a maximum ...

The 15-metre (49ft) long whale was first spotted off the coast of Skye on Thursday. A team from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) used drones and boats to examine the whale and found it ...

You have to go ashore. Meet Pakicetus. The very first whale. Life on Earth spent millions of years clawing its way out of the oceans. But whales took all that effort and threw it out the window.

Does such an animal exist? Whales—animals that humans nearly exterminated—can do all that and more. The unsubstantiated claims that whales compete with humans for fish or that they must be killed 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 ...

Whale carcasses take decades to fully decompose and can provide food for an entire ecosystem on the dark depths of the ocean floor. Dr Adrian Glover, a Museum expert in deep-sea biodiversity, sheds ...

Whale poo is responsible for moving tonnes of nutrients from deep water up to the surface. Now new research shows that whales also move vast quantities of nitrogen thousands of kilometres in their ...

Branch said his findings are just the latest in a long line of facts about baleen whale life linked to how they respond to killer whales. “Killer whale predation drives all kinds of aspects of ...

“Death to the living, Long life to the killers ... But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to more distant waters, first ...

The behaviours of whales have endeared them to us like few other species on Earth. Long-term research into the way they learn, hunt and socialise shows they may have more in common with us than ...

“The Festival of Whales is always the first weekend in March, and it is a celebration of the migration of California gray ...