The drones carry Petri dishes and hover over the blowholes of northern whales. Droplets of their respiratory fluid land on ...

Scientists studying whales in the Arctic have uncovered a potentially lethal virus using an unusual new technique. The finding has raised concerns about marine health in a region already under ...

Arctic marine life is notoriously difficult to study because of its remoteness. But drones have enabled whales to be ...

Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas.

In order to monitor the health of whales, scientists have been flying drones over Arctic waters to collect the creatures’ ...

Discover why safeguarding Arctic migration routes is vital for whales facing threats from shipping, noise, and climate change ...

A new study found that neurotoxins in whales pose risks to Native whale-hunting communities. Arctic whales are ingesting higher levels of toxic algae as warming waters create more suitable conditions ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (July 9, 2025) -- Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean warming is causing higher concentrations ...

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

Gray whales aren’t the only marine mammals that San Diegans have been lucky enough to observe. In December, a group of ...

Evidence from Brazil’s coast suggests Indigenous communities hunted whales 5,000 years ago, pushing back the origins of ...