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By analyzing how fin whale calls bounce off the seafloor, scientists can recreate ocean crust layers.

Stephen Raverty of the Ministry of Agriculture in Canada and Joseph Gaydos of UC Davis speak with The Scientist about their recent study assessing the causes of orca deaths.

A team of scientists searching for a rare species of whale instead found a species of whale they say has never been recorded.

One way to investigate the record-setting deaths of the marine mammals is to perform autopsies on them, but researchers are also taking a close look at living whales for clues to what could be killing them.

Knock-on effects of melting sea ice in the Arctic may be to blame for a spate of gray whale deaths along their migration route from Mexico to Alaska.

For the past two years, the charismatic marine mammals have washed up on Pacific shores in record numbers. Scientists investigating the strandings suspect warming waters and melting sea ice are partly to blame.

When the sun’s atmosphere is stormy, more whales end up on the beach, according to a new study. Biologists speculate it may have to do with navigation or health.

Post-menopausal orcas tied to an increase in calf survival by providing food, care, and guidance.

Slowing to just two beats per minute, the animals’ heart rate shows how they survive plunging far below the ocean’s surface to eat.

Researchers estimate whale body mass from aerial images.

DNA analysis of a bizarre, 30-year-old whale skull serves as a reminder of the secrets that museum specimens keep about the natural world.

Enforcement of the Endangered Species Act will be altered, easing protections for the most critically threatened plants and animals.

Canadian officials are investigating the deaths and implementing regulations to reduce the number of ships that strike the endangered species or snag them in fishing gear.

The DNA of a whale shows its father was a beluga and its mother was a narwhal.

About 70 gray whales have been found dead this year on the west coast of the US.

The number of new babies is up from zero born last year, but scientists say the birth rate is still too low to sustain the population of endangered whales.

Eight environmental groups took the legal measure in an effort to protect North Atlantic right whales and other marine organisms.

A toothless whale fossil without signs of baleen could help explain how the whale filtration system evolved.

Southeast Alaska’s humpback whales haven’t changed their calls for close to four decades.