A group of whale watchers, look in horror as a huge humpback whale emerges from the water and swallows two kayakers whole!

I can’t remember if I’ve seen a whale”. A close encounter with one of these larger-than-life leviathans is a life-changing ...

When University of Pisa paleontologists first found a prehistoric whale's skeleton 13 years ago among rocks in southern ...

Blue whales migrate during summer to feed in colder regions where krill is plentiful, like in the waters off California. They ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...

The biggest cetacean in the world is the blue whale, whose scientific name is Balaenoptera musculus. Despite some people’s ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

Playwright Abe Koogler’s portrait of a group of Pacific Northwesterners is rich, funny and devastating, with a cast that’s a ...

hints that the key reason why blue whale calves are hardly ever spotted may be that researchers prefer summertime to study congregations of the animal. The calves are born in fall and winter and ...

Elephants have the ability to live up to 70 years. These mammals are known for their intelligence and strong social bonds.