As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

Through the voices of 77 Angelenos, this story pays tribute to a selection of the thousands of structures that were lost or ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

The recent autopsy of a partially devoured great white shark confirms a brutal hunting trend—killer whales around the world are not afraid to attack the fearsome fish, especially when they get a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s been the Grammys’ running narrative for almost a decade now: when will the Grammys’ all-time most-winning artist, a ...

It takes a day for Hori Parata (Ngātiwai) to dissect a whale. His tipuna have been doing this work for some 15 generations, and now his son does too. “We’re doing it because it’s a retrieval of ...

Ever since a giant gorilla scaled the Empire State Building with a beautiful damsel in his hand in 1933's King Kong, ...

Coconut rice goes well with all sorts of cuisines, from the Caribbean to South-East Asia. It’s particularly good with a Thai green curry. Wash the rice well under cold running water to remove ...

In a post-industrial whaling world, flagship and charismatic baleen whale species are indicators of the health of our oceans. However, traditional monitoring methods provide spatially and temporally ...