A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale that had sunk 4,920 ...

Two sperm whales line up nose to nose, accelerate, and slam their foreheads together with enough force to send a visible ...

Deep below the surface of the Pacific, some of the planet’s largest predators are quietly inhaling astonishing numbers of squid, with new research showing that individual whales can consume up to 202 ...

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) has published two scientific studies presenting the most comprehensive documentation of a sperm whale birth ever recorded and the first quantitative ...

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — There are easier ways to cross an ocean, but few are as slick or stylish as the remora’s whale-surfing joyride. Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...