Southern right whales have distinctive white and gray patches of thickened skin on their heads known as callosities. Because ...

Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off Australia’s southern coast are having calves less often than they used to. A ...

Go behind the scenes with reporter Kiley Bense and oceans correspondent Teresa Tomassoni as they discuss how climate change is transforming the oceans for whale populations.

Researchers from Mystic Aquarium are heading to the icy tundras of Canada to study beluga breath. That’s the white-plume mixture of water cells, proteins and lung fluid that whales exhale when they ...

Whales in the North Atlantic appear to be adjusting their behaviour to coexist and divide food resources among themselves as climate crisis and human pressures reshape ocean ecosystems, according to a ...

The North Atlantic right whale is one of our most endangered large whale species. They have been listed as endangered since ...

Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord. The clear and calm waters of Reisafjorden, in Norway's Far North, have in recent ...

Songs have lowered in frequency, in part because of changes to ocean water. Whales in the ocean around Antarctica are changing their tune, according to a new study. Publishing their findings in the ...

NOAA aims to undo vessel-speed regulation that protects endangered North Atlantic right whales, instead looking at real-time ...

A bill in New Zealand aims to legally recognize the rights of whales, drawing on Indigenous stewardship and aligning with the global rights of nature movement.