New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75%. An ...

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

Bowhead whales are endemic to the icy waters of the Arctic and prefer living in shallow waters near sea ice, filtering krill and tiny crustaceans called copepods for food. However, the Arctic is ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using skin samples collected from more than 1,100 whales between 1992 and 2019, scientists analysed stable nitrogen and carbon ...