A new study published today in The ISME Journal marks the first time scientists have shown a connection between respiratory microbes and the health of a free-ranging whale population. Subscribe to our ...

Drones have been used to successfully collect samples from the exhaled breath—or "blow"—from wild humpback, sperm and fin whales in northern Norway, hailing a new era of non-invasive health monitoring ...

Monitoring the health of the world’s largest animals has always posed a challenge. Whales spend most of their lives underwater, migrate across vast distances, and are difficult to examine without ...

A marine biologist captured video of the moment a bowhead whale cracked through a layer of ice in West Greenland in order to breathe. Fredrik Oscar Christiansen of Aarhus University in Denmark posted ...

Between 2016 and 2024, researchers collected 103 respiratory samples from 85 NorthAtlantic right whales using drones. Drones provide a stable, quiet platform, minimizing stressand disturbance to the ...