Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

Whale songs are far removed from the singing that humans are used to. Unlike our musical sounds, those produced by whales are a complex range of vocalisations that include groans, clicks and whistles ...

A new study from Stanford University found that blue whales, the biggest creature on Earth, ingest about 10 million pieces of microplastics per day. Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic debris ...

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 ...

The largest animals on Earth are having their health jeopardized by some of the smallest manmade objects. A new study found that filter-feeding baleen whales off of the California coast are ingesting ...

“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...

The ocean is home to some of the most awe-inspiring creatures on Earth, many of which dwarf anything found on land. From massive whales to elusive deep-sea dwellers, these giants of the sea ...

A gigantic ancient whale has been uncovered by researchers—and it potentially represents the heaviest animal ever known to exist. Weight estimates of the now-extinct whale species, named Perucetus ...

Along with eating animals such as fish and seals, killer whales (aka orcas) are also known to hunt down some types of whales … hence their name. For the first time ever, however, there has now been a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A new study from Stanford University found ...