Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

Scientists confirmed the first east-to-west Atlantic migration of a North Atlantic right whale, traveling 3,000 miles from ...

Scientists have collected "blow" samples from wild humpback, sperm, and fin whales in Northern Norway using drones.

Drones have been used to successfully collect samples from the exhaled breath - or "blow" - from wild humpback, sperm and fin whales in northern ...

A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale made an incredible 3,000-mile journey from Ireland to Boston, providing ...

Killer whales or orca (Orcinus orca) have been observed hunting with Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) in the waters off ...

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