Grays endure an epic roundtrip journey of 10,000 miles or more, and California holds a prime seat through May. Along with ...

"Santa Cruz, Moss Landing and Monterey harbors and Pillar Point Harbor just north of Half Moon Bay host vessels that offer ...

Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

New Canadian research, using decades of samples from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, shows that as Arctic krill becomes scarce, fin and minke whales are eating more of the kinds of fish that humpback whales ...

Fin, humpback, and minke whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence are eating more fish and less krill than they did in the past ...

While whales do need fresh water, they actually don’t need a huge amount, considering their size. This is largely because, in ...

With their large brains, whales are incredibly intelligent and many are highly skilled hunters. Some show their prowess by overpowering the largest fish in the ocean while others gobble down ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...

When Stephen Kesler first designed his “Out of the Blue” sculpture that now looms over Salt Lake City’s 9th and 9th neighborhood, he had no idea how big an effect the artwork, known as “the whale,” ...

Humpback in the Senyavin Strait in far eastern Russia. When University of Southern Denmark whale researcher Olga Filatova set off on her first field trip in 2000, she spent five years looking for ...