When I got there, I saw they had already become stranded – it was heartbreaking,” a local photographer told Newsweek.

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In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, ...

Blue Whale. Photo by Todd Cravens, via Unsplash. Blue whales belong to the suborder of baleen whales, known as Mysticeti, which evolved roughly 34 million years ago. Their massive size is a relatively ...

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 ...

"We often think of plants as the lungs of the planet. Animals are the circulatory system." Scientists make incredible breakthrough after studying whale urine: 'We soon realized that was only part of ...

Globally, commercial whaling led to the eradication of over 90% of humpback whales. In 1986, The International Whaling Commission announced a worldwide moratorium on whaling. Despite global efforts to ...

Baleen whales include the bowhead whale, the humpback whale, the grey whale and, of course, ... Much like blue whales in the northern hemisphere today, we can see Hope swam north towards Greenland and ...

The Arctic, the most northern region on Earth, takes in the icy extremities of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and Alaska in the United States, as UNEP ... the basis of the ...

In the summer, adult whales feed at high latitudes—like Alaska, Iceland, and Antarctica)—putting on tons of fat, chowing down on krill and herring. According ... They need this energy for an amazing ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, supporting the health of tropical ecosystems and fish. UC Santa Cruz professors ...