Plus, whales don’t tend to produce nutrient-rich poop during breeding season, but they do still urinate. Essentially, baleen whales transport nitrogen and phosphorous from their polar feeding ...

A mysterious whale that has long puzzled scientists may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath ...

“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 ...

A major study of humpback whale movement across the North Atlantic basin completed by researchers associated with College of ...

Roman et al. examined publicly available spatial data for whale feeding and breeding grounds, augmented with sightings from airplane and ship surveys to fill in gaps in the data, then fed that ...

A new study published in Nature Communications shows that gray, humpback, and right whales transport about 3,784 tons of ...

The whales are now headed north. In just the last two weeks, three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay, one of which ...

The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center is probing the death of a female gray whale that washed up on Black Sands Beach in ...

A whale sighting yesterday in the Eastshore park area of the Emeryville Peninsula has turned into a potentially tragic ...

“Given that these warm-water ecosystems are even more nutrient-limited than those in polar regions, the impacts may be even greater in the areas where baleen whales commonly breed and give birth.” In ...