Massive tangles of discarded fishing lines, ropes and plastic bags are harming marine life in the Pacific, with deep-diving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Goose-beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) hold the record for deepest dive of any marine mammal, and researchers hope that ...

The whales are a deep-diving species, rarely seen at sea and can spend long periods underwater hunting squid and fish. The ...

In the ocean’s abyss, deep-diving whales use echolocation to hunt in pitch dark. Emitting sounds that bounce off objects gives the whales a clear picture of their surroundings. “More often than any ...

A new study is first to find that a humpback whale’s song structure is directly connected to its movement through water ...

A diving whale revealed how existing technology makes it possible to monitor cetaceans swimming quietly across the seabed ...

Applying chaos theory to the movement of iconic arctic whales uncovered a 24-hour diving cycle and a long-range (~100 km) synchronization. Bowhead whales are among the largest and longest-lived ...

A group of divers had a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with a curious 30-foot humpback whale off French Polynesia. Footage ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. From January to May each year, ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The ultra-stable properties of the proteins that allow deep-diving whales to remain active while holding their breath for up to two hours could help Rice University biochemist John Olson and his ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If there were a gold medal for cetacean diving, it undoubtedly would go to the Cuvier's beaked whale. Scientists said on Wednesday they tracked these medium-sized whales off the ...