One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest dinosaurs to have ever roamed the planet. That's right: The biggest whale ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

What if an animal could entertain and educate millions of people annually, enhance productivity (thereby increasing the number of fish in the sea), mitigate climate change, feed billions of marine ...

The ocean quahog clam can live for more than 500 years, making it one of the longest-living animals. Bowhead whales can reach ages over 200 years, due to their slow metabolism and cold Arctic ...

Similarly, seismic surveys are used by the oil industry to search for oil and gas deposits in the ocean waters off Alaska and elsewhere. The Center has actively opposed numerous such proposals and in ...

The bowhead whale is also sometimes called a polar whale because it's a true Arctic specialist, living in icy waters that most marine mammals cannot endure. Found in the Arctic Ocean and ...

The Arctic's "Last Ice Area" (LIA)—a vital habitat for ice-dependent species—might disappear within a decade after the ...