On the ocean floor, mouthless worms are quietly dismantling whale skeletons using acid-secreting roots and an unlikely ...

Rod Keogh has been storing whale poo in his freezer for years.  "It's hard to find people as interested in it as me," he says ...

A molecular ecologist is hoping that studying the faeces of southern right whales, or tohorā, will help protect them from the threat of climate change.

In 1970, officials in Oregon thought they had found the perfect solution to a massive whale carcass that had washed ashore: 450 kilograms of TNT. What happened next became one of the strangest and ...

A dead juvenile humpback whale found near Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove is being studied by UCSC researchers, while locals and tourists gather to witness the rare sight. A dead juvenile ...

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge ...

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of whale remains. This site differs from previously described ...

On the barren seafloor, a sunken whale is like an all-you-can-eat buffet popping up on a deserted island. All manner of hardy deep-sea critters congregate at the carcass, turning a biological ghost ...

Chinese scientists have discovered the largest whale “graveyard” ever found. It contains nearly 500 whale skeletons all collected by chance and spreads across 750 miles of seafloor and five million ...

It's the oldest, largest, and deepest graveyard of whale falls ever found—and it's been feeding life for millions of years. Reading time 4 minutes Marine scientists this week have announced a ...

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20 th Century Studios has released the first trailer for Whalefall, the adaptation of Daniel Kraus’ novel coming to theaters in October. The film — which stars Austin Abrams, Josh Brolin, Elisabeth ...