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 ...

On the ocean floor, mouthless worms are quietly dismantling whale skeletons using acid-secreting roots and an unlikely bacterial partnership. But these strange creatures are vanishing, and their ...

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.

Drone footage has revealed sperm whales headbutting each other—something scientists had only speculated about until now. Surprisingly, it’s younger whales doing it, not the giant males researchers ...

Exclusive: Pierre Coffin walks us through the logic sentimental value of the Golden Age of Hollywood easter eggs in Minions & ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends ...