Ten days driving down 'the Mother Road' revealed a country whose obsession with its own past is at odds with its precarious future.

Smaller pygmy sperm whales live in the ocean around South Carolina all year round, but other species pass through the Myrtle ...

Now, scientists from Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and Harvard University are proposing a new method for ...

Today, a research team has proposed a new reinforcement learning framework with autonomous drones to find sperm whales and predict where they will surface.

In addition to studying the world’s only nonmigratory blue whales, marine biologist Asha de Vos seeks to change her compatriots’ attitudes toward the ocean.

Both bowhead and narwhal whales have faced centuries of violent persecution by human commercial whalers, writes a scientist ...

Here’s the story of Squilla, a rare North Atlantic right whale mother, and her firstborn. To help their species continue, they’d have to navigate an increasingly dangerous ocean.

Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative consisting of over 50 scientists, is working to uncover — and eventually decode — patterns in whale “speech.” ...

One reason for the bump over last year’s estimate is that it includes for the first time all whales born during the previous calving season, calves born during the 2022-2023 season, Hamilton said.

BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine — One of the rarest species of whale in the world has increased slightly in population, encouraging conservationists to call on the federal government and the shipping and ...