The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.
At the Natural History Museum, the cetacean collection contains the remains of more than 6,000 specimens of whales, dolphins, ...
Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian newspaper.
The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of ...