Mandie Riffert of Newark, Delaware has been playing in the Whale Holiday Marching Band for over a decade. This year, her ...

Veterinary pathologist Stephen Raverty has performed about 2,500 necropsies on whales and other large marine mammals over the past 25 years, as part of his work for B.C.'s Ministry of Agriculture and ...

For how crucial whales have been for humanity, from their harvest for meat and oil to their future use of saving the world ...

Whales breed in specific areas deep beneath the Arctic Circle ice, reveals new research. Scientists used state of the art AI ...

Saratoga High School senior Lucy Zhang presented her research on the link between whale songs and human musical compositions ...

Each spring, local hunters sit on the edge of the ice and wait for whales—a custom that’s at least 1,000 years old.

If bowhead whales produce particularly varied and diverse calls in one area, it is very likely that the area is a breeding ...

Each year, more than 10,000 humpback whales migrate to Hawaii. Here are some interesting facts to know about their behavior and how to best see them on your next trip. ByWill McGough, Contributor.

Any way you slice it, whales are fascinating animals. They vary greatly in size and behavior, have rich and deep cognitive and emotional lives, and many can communicate and negotiate their social and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Eduardo Mercado III, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of psychology and a groundbreaking expert on whale song, wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first ...