The protein is called CIRBP, and it plays a key role in repairing double-strand breaks in DNA, a type of genetic damage that can cause disease and shorten lifespan in a variety of species, including ...

Say, for instance, a whale’s suspected cause of death is a boat strike. Researchers will look out for bruises and cuts during ...

The ocean is anything but quiet with animals making a variety of unique sounds, but what happens when the ocean gets too loud ...

KIRO Newsradio and Puget Sound Express have teamed up to give you a chance to win a whale watching experience! Complete the quiz below, complete the entry form, and you will be entered to win! Enter ...

Not long ago, Fred Armisen was reminiscing about the sound-effect LPs he used to stock at the Chicago record store where he worked in the Nineties. These vinyl platters contained all kinds of sounds, ...

Blue whales sing less when they are starving and sing more when food is plentiful, a recent study revealed. Researchers listened to whales off California for six years and found that their singing ...

Pilot whales don't typically summer in Rye's Milton Harbor. Until one did. A pilot whale, one presumes, could summer wherever it wants. For five days in August 1993, a sickly wayward whale trekked ...

The gray whales make a remarkable 10,000-to-12,000-mile round trip migration from Alaska to their Mexican nurseries each year, fattening themselves up in the Arctic before starting their journey south ...

MARYLAND - The Department of Natural Resources announced the right whale Slow Zone is in effect through April 14. Maryland DNR says endangered North Atlantic right whales have been detected off the ...

North Atlantic right whales were detected near Ocean City, Maryland, prompting a Slow Zone for boaters. Boaters are asked to avoid the area or travel at 10 knots or less through March 5. The Slow Zone ...

Whale researchers in the Pacific Northwest reported a day of extreme highs and lows on the last day of 2024. On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died.

SEATTLE (KOMO) — The Center for Whale Research said they've received information that as of Wednesday, J35, also commonly referred to as Tahlequah, has been seen carrying the body of the recently ...