Bowhead whales boost DNA repair to live centuries and extend human longevity potential Bowhead whale protein enhances ...

Scientists have been aware for some time that whales contribute to marine ecosystems by "recycling" nutrients. However, the exact impact on ocean productivity was unclear and had not been studied ...

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...

I n the late 1800s, some unknown whalers sailed the frozen waters of the Arctic, hunting down a bowhead whale. They were ...

There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora’s whale-surfing joyride.

New research confirms two distinct groups of West Coast killer whales with different diets, habitats, and behaviors.

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

The aquariums said its aerial survey team spotted three True’s beaked whales, a species “rarely seen at the surface,” while above the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the ...

It was an Inuit whale hunter who first spotted them: three juvenile California gray whales, trapped in frozen seas near Point Barrow, Alaska, on October 7, 1988. Roy Ahmaogak mentioned seeing the gray ...