Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

Scientists in China found a prehistoric "megapredator" so big that it had a 12-foot reptile preserved in its stomach.

The Cancer Paradox in Whales Whales are among the largest animals on Earth, yet they rarely get cancer. This seems ...

Researchers found that the whales had brought more nitrogen from their feeding grounds than the ocean’s natural processes (Alamy/PA) Whales transport vital nutrients from urine, placentas ...

A dead whale with 40 kilograms of plastic in its stomach has been discovered off the coast of the Philippines. Marine biologist Darrell Blatchley was called to recover the 4.7m Cuvier’s beaked ...

Deciding to call in at the Drop Inn on a dark Wednesday evening in February, stepping inside the village felt ... would have been a bit easier to stomach if the food had been up to scratch.

A whale died after becoming stranded on a Scots beach with 15kg on marine debris inside its stomach. The huge 46 feet adult sperm whale was first spotted in January chronically entangled in rope ...

A whale died after becoming stranded on a Scots beach with 15kg on marine debris inside its stomach. The huge 46 feet adult sperm whale was first spotted in January chronically entangled in rope and ...

Tasmania’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) said a group of 157 false killer whales were stranded on the beach on Wednesday morning. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service ...