When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

A dead whale sinking to the ocean floor creates a unique deep-sea ecosystem.: this whale fall provides food for scavengers, then enriches sediments for other creatures. Finally, bacteria in bones ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team from the University of Hawaii worked hours Saturday attempting to remove a smelly, blubbery mass of a whale carcass from ...

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the coast of North Carolina ...