The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.

The appearance of a northern bottlenose whale in London caused a huge stir and was watched by millions.

The North Atlantic Ocean is warming up. Higher temperatures and increased human activity in the region can trigger abrupt ...

The wasp is a non-native species to the UK and poses a risk to honey bees.

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

For the first time, we know more than we ever expected to know about the sex lives of the majestic beluga whale. It's ...

Canada and the U.S. are playing by different rules when it comes to protecting threatened whales, experts warn.

Among marine mammals, beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) are particularly difficult to study in their icy habitat. To better understand and protect this endangered species, scientists must piece ...

New Canadian research, using decades of samples from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, shows that as Arctic krill becomes scarce, fin and minke whales are eating more of the kinds of fish that humpback whales ...

Thanks to a new sampling technique, scientists can now monitor whale health in a non-invasive way. While this development is ...

Fin, humpback, and minke whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence are eating more fish and less krill than they did in the past, scientists say ...

Beluga whales indulge in wife swapping to enhance their long term survival chances, reveals new research. Ground-breaking DNA ...