A study reveals that whales vocalise less during marine heatwaves to kill their prey, linking climate change to changes in whale behavior. Scientists found whale songs are essential for monitoring ...

What better way to track whales than listening in on them? Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed ...

Scientists analyzed whale songs recorded in the marine sanctuary between 2015 and 2021 A hungry whale is a quiet whale. A new first-of-its kind study found the marine mammals vocalized less after ...

A rare sighting of an endangered North Atlantic right whale was filmed off the coast of Fort Myers, Florida. Anyone who spots a right whale is encouraged to report the sighting to the Coast Guard ...

A humpback whale urinating near Hawaii. Credit: Lars Bejder/NOAA Scientists have long understood that microbes, zooplankton, and fish are vital sources of recycled nitrogen in coastal waters.

The Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have partnered to start a program that will monitor the presence of whales off the state's coast in real ...

Spanning more octaves than a piano, humpback whales sing powerfully into the vast ocean. These songs are beautifully complex, weaving phrases and themes into masterful compositions. Blue and fin ...

A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. And the unusual spectacle was all caught ...

A dead whale washed ashore on the banks of the Delaware River north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, according to a published report. Drone photographer Daniel Ritter captured images of the whale ...

Unusual ocean events like the surfacing of oarfish, mass whale strandings, and anglerfish near shore indicate potential environmental shifts. These anomalies, possibly linked to global warming ...