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A screenshot from video showing three orcas swimming.
Video

Killer Whale: Orca

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A polar bear and its cub in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
Slideshow

Celebrating Marine Moms

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Slideshow

The Rice's Whale

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The Ross Sea is a 1.9 million square mile (3.6 million square km) stretch of ocean off the coast of Antarctica.
Slideshow

A Trip South to Antarctica’s Ross Sea

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A narwhal breaches the surface, its tusk pointed to the sky
Article

Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make them famous

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A gray whale spinal column viewed from the top through the vertebrae.
Article

A Gray Whale Makes its Way to the Smithsonian

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A vaquita swim in the ocean.
Timeline

A History Entwined: Vaquita, Totoaba, Fishermen

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Two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological excavation
Article

Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada

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Offshore Peru, during the Eocene (~56-34 million years ago), showing two archaeocetes (ancient whales): Ocucajea picklingi and Supayacetus muizon.
Article

New Archaeocetes from Peru Are the Oldest Fossil Whales from South America

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A screenshot from the video showing illustration of a whale at the surface of water at night.
Video

Life After Whale (On Whale Falls)

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A bottlenose dolphin carries a sponge, which it uses as a tool to dig up prey from the seafloor.
Photo

Sponge-Wielding Bottlenose Dolphin

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In this painting, a giant squid engages in a struggle for survival with a sperm whale.
Photo

Giant Squid vs. Sperm Whale

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