How do you give a whale a pregnancy test? This sounds like a joke, but it is not. At the New England Aquarium in Boston, scientists found an unusual method for confirming whale pregnancies - a ...

Dana Bloch pictured with a bottle of whale feces collected for her research. (Courtesy Dana Bloch) Humpback whales could be growing their own food supply and fighting climate change in a very unusual ...

To sustain their huge bodies, blue whales, which are the largest creatures on Earth, feed on huge amounts of krill. A hundred ...

Whales are massive reservoirs of carbon and they are key to the health of our oceans. But there are fewer whales — and less whale poop — in the ocean today than before industrial whaling took off.

An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...

Sperm whales blasted a "big dark bubble" of poop to prevent an impending orca attack off the southern coast of Western Australia. Scientists witnessed the clever defense strategy unfold Tuesday (March ...

We delve into the foody history of a rare ice cream ingredient that's considered a delicacy by some but that actually emanates from the rear end of whales.

In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million whales—a whopping 99 percent of the world’s large whale population. The ...

Joe Roman is a Gund Fellow at the University of Vermont and is the author of the book Eat, Poop, Die. In his new book “Eat, Poop, Die,” UVM wildlife expert Joe Roman explores the fascinating lives of ...