Some seaweed species are known to combat bacterial growth, which whale skin suffers quite a bit from. Whales generally have to shed their skin to prevent virus and bacteria overgrowth on their skin.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has abandoned plans to expand a vessel speed rule aimed at ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

Divers off the coast of La Jolla made an extraordinary discovery last week when they spotted the carcass of a baby whale on the ocean floor. The find, while somber, has provided a unique opportunity ...

In the past when I traveled to the arctic to film Polar bears, I always went during the winter when there was snow on the ground. After all, capturing images of Polar bears in snow is the ...

Thompson uses a specialized crossbow to shoot a hollow tip arrow into the whale’s side to collect a small skin and blubber ...

An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice with whale hunters in our podcast, Overheard at National Geographic. This story appears in ...

everybody got very excited," Pierce said. "You could see the eye, the wrinkles in the skin..." The young whale, estimated to be only about 20 feet long, is believed to be a gray whale calf.