We hypothesise that the amount of krill available to penguins has declined because of the increased competition from recovering whale and fur seal populations, and from bottom-up, climate-driven ...

A male humpback whale made one of the longest and most unusual ... around the world and could similarly affect distributions of krill in certain areas, which could in turn affect feeding grounds ...

A newborn blue whale can weigh as much as 8,800 pounds. These large marine mammals need to eat a lot of food to have enough energy to live. They eat krill, and they eat a lot of it. A blue whale ...

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

A whale that beached itself on Hilton Head Island on May 4 has been euthanized, local officials announced. The whale, which officials have identified as a juvenile sperm whale, was sedated and ...

Have you ever thought about what would happen if all life in the ocean disappeared? A recent study explores this extreme ...

Those in the Savannah area were part of a unique but tragic scene. A sperm whale was beached on the shore of Hilton Head Island over the weekend. Why did this happen and what do we know?

Even biologists only capture a glimpse of the lives of whales. There are still many species whose lives are largely a mystery, particularly the deep diving whales. But scientists are learning more ...

While visitors take selfies before its towering cliffs, six species of whale feed below on krill, plankton, and other deep-sea delicacies brought to the surface by the confluence’s cold water ...