Boaters got “lucky enough” to spot a plethora of sea creatures off the coast of California, spotting multiple species in one ...

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Researchers have identified a fascinating behavior in killer whales, aka orcas: they sometimes offer to share their prey with ...

The vocalisation of a dwarf minke whale sounds so strange and resonant it has been likened to a Star Wars lightsaber.

Effective and noninvasive whale and biodiversity monitoring is now possible with the help of citizen scientists, opening up ...

Mammalian altruism is extremely rare, but may have occurred when a pod of dolphins escorted a lost humpback whale from the ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

Killer whales have been documented offering food provisions to humans swimming near them or in nearby boats. Learn more about this fascinating behavior.

Orcas often share food with each other—it’s a prosocial activity and a way that they build relationships with each other,” ...

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

Sharks chomping on seals off Massachusetts, feasting on dead whale off Long Island: ‘Right in time for the 50th anniversary ...

Kathryn Jones is on a mission to read every plaque in every D.C.-area Smithsonian. While she didn’t start the project for ...