"The wind never lets up and there is so much wildlife. If you’re on the ocean then you’re never far from whales, you always ...

Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill ...

Whale watchers got a rare view of the world's largest mammal when they saw a blue whale off the coast of Cape May.

According to their results, the current krill biomass can’t support both the expanding krill fishery and the recovery of the ...

Inside the bodies of humpback whales are clues about how climate change is transforming Antarctica. Our BBC science team crossed the Southern Ocean, with the researchers, on a mission to follow ...

Japan ended its annual whale hunt in Antarctica early following clashes between its fleet and protesters, Agriculture Minister Michihiko Kano said. The government made the decision “to secure ...

Research on the relationship between sea ice and the Southern Ocean food web investigates various components of that food web ...

The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the largest animal on the planet, weighing up to 200 tons (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 30 meters in length. The ...

The new findings reveal that Antarctic krill store amounts of carbon that are comparable to critical blue carbon habitats ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research.