In rare video footage, a male whale shark has been spotted biting at his female partner during courtship. Before now, we knew ...

The ocean giants are the largest fish in the world, but their everyday lives and behaviors in the wild are elusive and ...

Whale sharks typically gather around Ningaloo Reef every year from March through July to feast on the plankton and krill that ...

The ocean is home to some of the most awe-inspiring creatures on Earth, many of which dwarf anything found on land. From ...

Courtship and procreative behavior in many species of elasmobranchs—cartilaginous fish including rays, sawfish, sharks, and skates—may include following and biting. However, there has been little ...

New Bedford's installing a statue of Herman Melville based on his epic "Moby-Dick," the story of a whaling captain and his ...

Humpback whale populations have been increasing throughout many of their ranges since a final moratorium on commercial ...

It’s completely unacceptable that so many whales are still becoming entangled after a decade of attention to this awful ...

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Killer whales have often been portrayed as an animal ... If I could, I would just live out there. To me, the open ocean, where you can’t see anything except water and sky, is one of the most ...

Three critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the United States' Eastern Seaboard this month, a number that a researcher says is ...

AP The North Carolina whale was identified as a juvenile male born in 2021. It had several fishing lines wrapped around his head and mouth, NOAA said. Since being untangled, the whale “has not ...