In movies and literature, a wolf’s haunting howl can signify danger or untamed nature. In real life, researchers in ...

A famous gray whale was first spotted in the Saratoga Passage on Dec. 11, early for a Sounder. The first of the “Sounders” ...

Scientists in the Arctic are catching the exhaled breaths of whales to better understand their health. How? Drones. Whales breathe through their blowholes, which are the equivalent of nostrils on ...

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

In a new book called Why Whales Sing, Eduardo Mercado details his life's work to try and understand what whale songs are all about.