Whales Are Tasty, but Bone-Eating Worms Might Not Discriminate
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Even without mouths or guts, the worms of the genus Osedax feast on the bones of âwhalefalls,â carcasses on the seafloor.
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A toxic chemical used to prevent barnacles from clinging to ship hulls may cause deafness in marine mammals and could lead whales to beach themselves, Yale researchers say.
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By Angela Haupt  In  just three hours one day last September, volunteers scouring international coastlines and waterways collected more than 7 million pounds of trash -- about the same as the weight of 30 blue whales.
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Each day at 4 p.m., the trawlers come back, alive with giant bass, mackerel and squirming eels, at the end of a food chain that links family dinner tables to poisons in the sea. Besides mercury which can damage the brains of fetuses and young children and can affect healthy adults, there are PCBs, dioxins and flame retardants with unknown long-term effects.
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Killer whales get the superstar treatment every summer off the Washington coast, where tourists fill up whale-watch boats to catch a glimpse of the majestic animals. Now, researchers are studying whether all the attention could be a bad thing.
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Scientists have discovered that even whales can get the bends. The findings challenge long-held beliefs that marine mammals do not get decompression sickness, and provide potential evidence that underwater
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It hardly seems fair, but new research suggests that water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators may harm their species more than help.
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Small deer-like animal that waded in lagoons 10 million years ago may have evolved into whale
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Ancient fish could bite a shark in two  Sharks were not always the top predators in the ocean.
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Fossils from extinct dogs show why bigger is not better -- giant meat-eating animals died out because they relied too heavily on hunting other big animals, scientists reported on Thursday.
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As he stood knee-deep in whale guts, it didn&#39;t occur to researcher Michael Moore that sperm whales might get the bends. A veterinarian and research specialist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
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To a degree some may find hard to swallow, science is proving the old adage "you are what you eat."
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Scientists are studying endangered right whales this summer to learn more about their behavior and assess the risks posed by lobster gear.
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A second look at some 40-million-year-old fossils provides a "missing link" to suggest that the closest living relative of whales is the hippo, a group of scientists said on Monday.
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You can learn a lot from a microbe. Right now, a tiny critter from the Dead Sea is teaching scientists new things about biotechnology, cancer, possible life on other worlds. And that's just for starters.
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In response to worldwide criticism, Japan announces threatened humpbacks will not be killed as planned on the annual whale hunt. Its whale fleet, now in the southern Pacific off Antarctica, will kill some 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales.
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ISLA HOLBOX, Mexico -- The whale shark -- a massive, polka-dotted creature stretching about 23 feet long -- slowly swam up alongside the scientists' boat. As it neared, they tossed a handful of pre-soaked rice in front of its enormous mouth. The rice rushed in along with the seawater, and the wha...