Oregon’s attempt to remove a dead sperm whale by explosion became a chaotic and cautionary tale.

When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something researchers call a whale fall. The body is a literal smorgasbord on which deep sea ...

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Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas. By Alexa Robles-Gil In northern Norway, scientists detected a disease-causing virus in ...

Want to spot nature’s largest animal in the wild? Late December is a great time to make it happen — and the weather might even play ball this year. Upward of 14,000 gray whales are expected to swim ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

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Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s disease. Now they just need samples from the people living in the most ...

Scientists in the Arctic are catching the exhaled breaths of whales to better understand their health. How? Drones. "Drones have really revolutionized our ability to get a biological sample from a ...

The killer whales ripped the liver out of a shark and passed it around—only the second time orcas have been seen engaging in this behavior. Killer Whales off the coast of Baja California Sur in the ...