A dead sperm whale weighing more than 100,000 pounds washed up on a Nantucket beach, but a local nonprofit says it can't be ...

A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could ...

Scientists and Nantucket officials are trying to figure out what to do about a huge whale that washed up on the island.

We use the latest media reports of a dead sperm whale washed up on Nantucket beach in Massachusetts to examine how to remove ...

Officials have left the whale on the beach since Sunday, because at more than 100,000 pounds it is simply too big to move ...

Move over, blue whale. You've been demoted. Scientists have discovered what they say could be the heaviest animal that ever lived on Earth: a gigantic ancient whale that may have been two to three ...

The blue whale is not only currently the biggest animal on Earth, but scientists long thought that it might be the largest animal to have ever lived. Now fossils unearthed in Peru suggest a giant ...

While beached whales are not rare in Oregon, it’s uncommon to see healthy whales wash up alive. In a cruel irony, had the ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (AP) — Whale sharks shouldn't be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived. They are ...