How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?

New research from the University of St Andrews shows humpback whales rely on socially learned bubble-net feeding to survive ...

Deep beneath the waves, something is shifting. Life once drawn to sunken whales and wood is missing, leaving the seafloor ...

But in recent years, scientists have found the zombie worms (genus Osedax) are missing in action off the coast of British ...

For around three decades, researchers have been extracting samples of whales and prey at Gulf of St. Lawrence and found ...

Zombie worms have vanished from Pacific whale bones off British Columbia. Scientists link this mystery to low oxygen and warn ...

When a whale dies and sinks, it’s not a tragedy for the ocean — it’s a miracle. These “whale falls” become organic skyscrapers, sparking a frantic gold rush in the deep sea. Typically, a clean-up crew ...

Palette was calm upon approach, but the team was unable to determine whether gear was still present due to "the nature of the ...

The foraging strategy may help humpbacks be more resilient to food scarcity, emphasizing the importance of preserving their ...

NOAA is asking Maui’s on-water community to be on the look out for a recently-entangled 40-foot female humpback whale off ...

Sanctuary staff confirmed the whale had multiple deep entanglement wounds, encrusted with red-colored cyamid amphipods (white lice) around her rostrum (upper jaw) due to a previous mouth entanglement ...

NOAA is asking Hawaii’s on-water community to keep a close eye out for an entangled humpback whale spotted off Lahaina, Maui.