Also known as scaly anteaters, pangolins are mammals of the order Pholidota and the family Manidae. They are dispersed ...

Baleen whales shift huge amounts of nutrients, including nitrogen, from high-latitude feeding waters to tropical breeding ...

You might not want to think too much about all the whales that have urinated in the ocean the next time you go to the beach, ...

As offshore wind turbines rise from the waters off the Northeast coast, so do questions about their impact beneath the ...

Blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged the wallet address of a whale that staked nearly 1 million Solana (SOL) tokens in 2021. At the time of the staking, Solana tokens were worth around $ ...

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Despite this sideways price action, whale activity paints a promising picture, with onchain data showing large investors took advantage of the drop to $1.61. Related: Coinbase Derivatives lists ...

A 1,500-pound whale fossil was found along the Gaviota Coast. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History says the fossil is unique for how complete it is. Credit: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural ...

Most species of baleen whale travel between 1,800 and 3,000 miles each way. Southern populations of humpback whales leave their Antarctic feeding grounds in January every year and spend three ...

Those are tiny, fat-rich crustaceans that whales filter through their baleen, which are plates in their mouth that strain the food out of mud they suck into their mouths. But melting sea ice ...

Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers and others worry they may be witnessing another ...

The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself off the coast of Emeryville April 8. Scientists had thought she seemed ...