Compared to other marine animals, whales have been understudied. Spending their lives in the open ocean, sometimes in very ...
As the 100-foot long whale watch vessel, "Acadia Explorer," idles at the dock in Bar Harbor on this day in late July, passenger Sarah Leiter with the Maine Department of Marine Resources opens her ...
Humpback whales have devised a clever strategy that allows them to scarf down lots of food in just a handful of gulps. Called “bubble netting,” this well-documented strategy involves swimming in ...
Project CETI, you may recall, is the same group that recently released footage showing adult sperm whales collaborating as doulas to help one of their own give birth. That researc ...
Humpback whales sometimes use this very intricate, very cool strategy to catch fish. It is called bubble-net feeding. As NPR's Nate Rott reports, a new study suggests the whales are teaching each ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Whale Mobile, a life-size 40-foot inflatable whale, made a visit to RCSD School No. 34 on Thursday. Students got an immersive experience where they could see the sheer scale of ...
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Behavioral ecologist Jaclyn Aubin has studied beluga whales in ...
As the 100-foot long whale watch vessel, "Acadia Explorer," idles at the dock in Bar Harbor on this day in late July, passenger Sarah Leiter with the Maine Department of Marine Resources opens her ...