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 ...

Pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) are among the ocean's most enigmatic inhabitants—rarely seen and largely unstudied. They live far offshore in small groups, diving in search of squid and fish.

"Drone blow sampling is a game-changer," study co-author Terry Dawson said in the King's College London report. "It allows us to monitor pathogens in live whales without stress or harm, providing ...

Sharks are often imagined as massive, powerful predators cruising through open water, but not all sharks are great white-sized. Along the coasts of the United States and in the deep offshore waters, ...

The biggest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic has surfaced off North Carolina - giving scientists new information on the secret mating grounds of sharks.

The biggest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic has surfaced off North Carolina – giving scientists new ...

The Revillagigedos Archipelago (Socorro Islands), 400 km off the Pacific coast of Mexico, is globally recognised as the ...

Indonesian scientists have attached a satellite tag onto an endangered pygmy blue whales for the first time by drone. The tag ...

Standing on the southern tip of the island at Dondra Head, where the Indian Ocean stretches endlessly in every direction, it is difficult to imagine that beneath those restless blue waves lies one of ...

The carcass of a juvenile humpack whale was first spotted Wednesday afternoon off Newport Beach will be studied by ...

Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a ...