The drones carry Petri dishes and hover over the blowholes of northern whales. Droplets of their respiratory fluid land on ...

Between 2016 and 2025, researchers sampled humpback, sperm, and fin whales across the Northeast Atlantic, including northern Norway, Iceland, and Cape Verde. Blow samples, as well as skin biopsies, ...

Drone-based blow sampling advances pathogen surveillance in North Atlantic whales using DJI equipment for non-invasive health monitoring.

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

Arctic marine life is notoriously difficult to study because of its remoteness. But drones have enabled whales to be ...

New research shows whale hunting in South America dates back 5,000 years, reshaping views of early maritime societies.