A 24-year-old kayaker was briefly swallowed by a whale before being spat out... unharmed.His father filmed the entire scene.

Cuvier's beaked whales hold the record for the deepest-diving mammal. They can go nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) below the ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

You’ve heard of the butterfly effect — the idea that a tiny flap of wings can trigger a hurricane on the other side of the ...

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

Did you know that whales help keep the ocean healthy by spreading nutrients far and wide? These massive creatures don’t just ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

The endangered whales visit Bay each year, where researchers count and track them, hoping the species returns from the brink ...

Unlike fish, whales have lungs, not gills. That means they must return to the ocean's surface to breathe. Like other mammals, whales are warm-blooded, which means their body temperature stays the ...