They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt ... For example, humpbacks in the North Pacific migrate annually from the Gulf of Alaska to the ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

One moment they were paddling across calm ocean waters, and the next, they were plunged into darkness — inside a humpback ...

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, with many species migrating long distances between their feeding and mating grounds, where they ...

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. The largest of these giants was a true behemoth, equaling the ...