Most whales are defined by their teeth, but beaked whales carry only two, and they never use them to eat. The reason behind ...

Hidden deep beneath the Indian Ocean, researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest and largest whale graveyard, a 5.3-million-year-old necropolis filled with whale fossils.

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

A remarkable deep-sea expedition uncovered an unexpected underwater archive that could transform scientists' understanding of ...

It was a cloudy morning on Friday, July 17, when dozens of families, individuals and nature enthusiasts lined up at Rainbow Harbor, in Long Beach, waiting to board a boat — in search of whales, ...

A deep ocean whale graveyard is revealing new clues about whale evolution and the ecosystems that form around their remains.

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By David GruberSylvia Earle Seventy years ago, Le Monde du Silence, a film by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, depicted the ...

A new approach to better assessing whale population data has emerged, led by a research team of marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and statisticians from Cal ...

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording ...