Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A blue whale swims near the coast of Sri Lanka. Studies from California to New Zealand have shown that certain whale species, such ...

Watching a massive whale breach the surface of the ocean is a moment that stays with you forever, but you do not necessarily ...

Blue whales have been singing less, and it could be a bellwether of climate change. Warming oceans affect the availability of their only food source, krill, and according to a study published in the ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

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 ...

A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest singers. Does saving the ocean start with hearing it? A blue whale swims near ...