The dead humpback whale that washed up on the beach of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday was a 31.5-foot-long ...
A group of scientists had a “conversation” with a humpback whale in Alaska — and they hope principles learned from it will someday help communicate with aliens. The team was assembled by the ...
Humpback whales typically feed by filling their large, pleated oral pouch with ocean water, then expelling the water through built-in filters called baleen, which retains krill and fish.
A dead Humpback Whale was found washed up at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2024.A team of biologists ...
A new method of whale detection will help protect cetaceans from ship disturbances and collisions in B.C.’s Salish Sea, an ocean conservation group announced Thursday. Vancouver-based Ocean Wise ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Genetic analysis finds evidence suggesting that acoustic fat bodies in the heads of toothed whales were once the muscles and bone marrow of the ... Caller ID of the Sea: Tagging ...
John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait ...
Whales may be known as gentle giants, but they still have a looming presence as the world’s loudest and largest animals. The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches ...
The north-western Australian town of Exmouth has, for a long time, been little more than a military outpost, and is currently home to a listening station that stands proud on a headland looking ...
A southern resident killer whale preys on a salmon. (Candice Emmons/NOAA Fisheries, NMFS permit number 16163) (CN) — The endangered Southern Resident killer whales in the waters near Washington and ...