Round Spectacle in an Ocean Under Strain Along California’s coastline, whale watching is not confined to a single season. Nearly any month of the year offers ...

The longest animal on Earth isn’t what you think. It’s a drifting, gelatinous predator whose reach reshapes how we define ...

Blue whales are the largest mammals in the world, and they spend much of their lives roaming the deep ocean, where they feed on vast amounts of krill. Blue whales usually inhabit the open sea and are ...

Last month, a blue whale was spotted off the coast in waters near Rhode Island by the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot ...

Bowhead whales survived thousands of years of climate change, but human hunting caused damage that still continues today.

A unique collection of prehistoric bowhead whale bones, dating back 11,000 years, reveals a previously untold story of the ...

In November 2023, we traveled to Norway to see the aurora and photograph whales above the Arctic Circle. We were there for ...

The New England Aquarium aerial photography team has spotted blue whales twice in a row in waters south of Nantucket Island (Massachusetts). This was reported by Popular Science magazine on March 15.

Can you guess which aquatic mammal has the largest brain ever recorded? Let's find out more about this ocean giant together.

As if soaring above the brilliant blue ocean isn’t spectacular enough, the New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team recently ...

The other day, an article in Popular Mechanics (of all things) caught my attention. It described how scientists are making ...

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, ...