In 2021, researchers identified a new species of whale. Now, they are racing against time to save their natural habitat before the whales disappear for good. Rice's whale is the only resident baleen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers figured out that the Bryde’s Whales in the Gulf of Mexico were not, in fact, Bryde’s Whales. Photo: NWF Although we ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Scientists have proven a mammal that was believed to be a whale subspecies is actually a new species entirely, and the new species is critically endangered. Researchers took a closer look at the ...

Fish-eating killer whales in southern Alaska have a diverse, seasonally changing diet featuring salmon and groundfish, ...

FADEL: The New England Aquarium has been counting, and 18 North Atlantic right whale calves were born so far this breeding season. FADEL: We asked Nora Ives. I'm not an expert. She's a marine ...

In deep, tropical offshore waters, there exists a whale that’s roughly the size of a dolphin. Sightings of it are extremely rare, and few people have captured it on film. Despite its small size, it ...

Groundbreaking research is revealing that communication among whales is far more complex and sophisticated than previously ...

"This is really unusual from what we've been tracking." ...