Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale nuzzles up to its mother. Then, a cloud of dark yellow urine gushes into the water ...

Even for the world’s largest animals, “when you gotta go, you gotta go.” Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological information and nutrients for the ocean. Not to be ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In late 2020, St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena, Montana ...

A humpback whale and her calf are two of thousands of whales who create a newly discovered "conveyor belt," carrying huge quantities of critical nutrients from high latitudes to the tropics. (Credit: ...

Thousands of whales were caught off its coasts and processed at a number of whaling stations - the scale of the slaughter such that the bays around the island were red with whale blood.

Cynthia Weiner’s debut novel, “A Gorgeous Excitement” (Crown) takes its title from a Sigmund Freud quote about how much he loved cocaine, and its major plot points from a real-life tragedy ...

Drivers in Dover, New Hampshire got an eyeful when a crazed man named Shawn Weiner Sr. stripped naked and started wandering among traffic on Route 16 after crashing a stolen car and fleeing the scene.

Government bogeyman Elon Musk has been accused by his number-one nemesis, "212" rapper Azealia Banks, of having a "botched penis implant" — a funny-sounding but extremely real and dangerous ...

A longtime power player in Brooklyn politics who now serves on the Board of Elections promoted a fundraiser for Anthony Weiner’s City Council campaign – a move one good government group says ...

A NOAA photo of a Rice's whale—the species has lost some of its protections in the northern Gulf of Mexico. A NOAA photo of a Rice's whale—the species has lost some of its protections in the ...