Two areas being targeted for deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean are home to dolphins and threatened whales, a new ...

Federal officials are reporting the lowest numbers of gray whales counted since the 1970s. More than 20 have died in S.F. Bay ...

The number of gray whales that migrated past Central California is the smallest since federal protections began.

After an official Unusual Mortality Event was declared over, scientists expected the population to rebound. Instead, they're ...

Previous research underestimated baleen whale consumption by three times or more in certain ecosystems. Industrial whaling is believed to have removed 80% of whales in the Southern Ocean in just 60 ...

UNCW’s Marine Mammal Stranding Program is celebrating the sighting of an orca named ‘Old Tom’ off the coast of North Carolina ...

Whales have hair. Although they don’t look furry, whales do have hair, Hodgins says, explaining that some whales and dolphins are born with what look like whiskers on their beaks. These whiskers ...

It is part of an effort to evaluate the health of the whale population up north – and support subsistence in the area. Scientists and Iñupiaq hunters have been counting bowhead whales passing by the ...

The International Whaling Commission now recognizes the importance of preserving cultural diversity in whale populations as part of comprehensive conservation planning. Future Research Directions.

A moratorium on commercial whaling enacted in 1985 has led to a global rebound in the humpback whale population, though they’re at risk of entanglement in fishing gear and face threats of vessel ...