“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...

During these journeys, they excrete vast amounts of nitrogen-rich urea, with fin whales alone producing over 250 gallons of urine per day when feeding. “We call it the ‘great whale conveyor ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

For perspective, fin whales produce more than 250 gallons of urine per day when they are feeding, a study in Iceland suggests. Humans pee less than half a gallon daily. “Because of their size, whales ...

On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long juvenile fin whale that ...

Specifically, they feed in deeper waters and then release ... distances from higher latitudes to lower latitudes: blue whales, fin whales, gray whales, humpback whales, and North Atlantic and ...

The waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary off central California are rich feeding grounds for blue, fin and humpback whales that cruise the coast during their annual migrations.

Around Feb. 28, a dead juvenile fin whale washed up in the mud at Pigeon Point, just north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge in New Castle County. A necropsy on the humpback whale indicated it may ...