A video showing a boat captain pulling parasites off a whale's head in a Mexican lagoon went viral. But a behavioral scientist told Insider that removing the parasites could actually hurt the whale.

The recent discovery of a fossilized whale bone, curiously adorned with barnacles, has furnished scientists with a unique window into the migratory patterns of these aquatic giants from a bygone era.

The carcass of a huge humpback whale covered in barnacles and oozing body fluids, found washed ashore, has now been removed. The whale was found on Strand Beach in Cape Town, South Africa on November ...

Taylor, L., O’Dea, A., Bralower, T., Finnegan, S. 2019. Isotopes from fossil coronulid barnacle shells record evidence of migration in multiple Pleistocene whale ...

Humans have discovered ways to get rid of old, dead skin cells – and it turns out humpback whales have made this self-care advancement, too. Whales will roll around in sandy, shallow bay areas to ...

The grey whale, sometimes called the “knuckle back whale,” is one of the ocean’s most rugged travelers. In this video, we dive into what makes this species so unique - from its bumpy back and barnacle ...

A toxic chemical used to keep barnacles off of ship hulls interferes with hearing in mammals, which could help explain why whales sometimes run aground on beaches, Yale scientists theorize. Whales ...