From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

At least 30 blue whales have been spotted in the waters of Loreto Bay National Park this season ...

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, inexperienced target guarded by a single adult. However, orcas cannot reach ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been spotted not far off the coast of Massachusetts.

Moral arithmetic, not dietary labels, should guide our choices when we genuinely want to reduce harm in the world.

Q. You wrote that blue whales are the largest mammals. What are the largest and smallest animals of other groups? What ecological problems do animals confront by being extremely big ...

Q. You wrote that blue whales are the largest mammals. What are the largest and smallest animals of other groups? What ecological problems do animals confront by being extremely big or extremely small ...

A photographer captured this extraordinary site where whales' bodies lie in the shallows, with troubling repercussions for the deep oceans.

The Davidson family was taking a leisurely beach walk in Australia when they stumbled on quite a find. A whale fossil estimated to be about 20 million years old. The whale fossil was excavated from ...

Lynne Schafer Gross and Mark McDermott One day circa 1970, a boy in El Segundo looked up at a telephone pole near his home and saw a hawk perched at ...

A McDonald's Filet-o-Fish stacked atop its blue box - Robson90/Shutterstock The Filet-O-Fish was the first addition to the ...

It's goofy, knowingly strange, and wears its heart on its sentimental sleeve, and that's enough to put some wind in its sails ...