What researchers spotted off Cape Cod and the Vineyard recently is something they almost never see in these waters.

In rare sightings, scientists spotted endangered blue whales during two aerial surveys 24 hours apart off the coast of New ...

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

Observers with New England Aquarium said it's the first time they have documented blue whales in their southern New England ...

A southern right whale swims with its calves in the waters of the South Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 5, 2022. Southern right whales are no longer reproducing at normal rates due to climate-induced changes ...

While the blue whale holds the title as both the largest and heaviest animal ever known, other whale species can weigh ...

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 ...

Discover how extreme animal sizes, from the massive blue whale to the tiny shrew, shape their survival strategies.

Southern right whales have distinctive white and gray patches of thickened skin on their heads known as callosities. Because ...

Since this new discovery, the title of "Earth's largest omnivore" has officially changed. The largest omnivore in the world has officially been changed and is now the whale shark. Historically, the ...

The study, published in the journal Frontiers, used 28 years of data and found that warming of the northern Atlantic Ocean is shifting the diets of fin, humpback, and minke whales. Whales in the St.

Humpback whales appeared to make an early return from migration in February — and one captain in Santa Barbara captured the moment on video, sparking excitement in the marine wildlife online community ...