Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer ...

Whales are amazing creatures that have been swimming through the oceans for millions of years. What many people don’t realize ...

On a calm morning in May, Brianna Beaulieu, a doctoral student in marine biology at the University of Western Australia, and several researchers from around the world boarded two research vessels ...

Orcas are at the top of the marine food chain, with no natural predators. From fish to seals, even great white sharks, ...

Nowhere in the ocean is now left untouched by a type of "forever chemicals" called "per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances," ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

This gave rise to Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), a 50-plus-person team of marine biologists, A.I. experts, ...

Whales carry tons of nutrients in their pee thousands of miles across the oceans. © Martin van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In 2010, two researchers in the U.S ...

"Our Oceans" is a five-episode documentary series set to premiere on Netflix on Nov. 20 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...