Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Blue whale calves have remained elusive for centuries, with scientists puzzled by their near-total absence from recorded ...

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

Since I was very close to J.D. and my grandmother, Noretta, I grew up hearing bits and pieces of the Whale War story, but it wasn’t until I got older that I really got the whole picture ... a glass ...

Over the years we’ve seen whales in the wild enough times that I thought we had pretty much done it all. Then I saw a friend’s striking photos from ... largest beings (blue whales) to ever ...

Blue whales might be some of the most iconic creatures on the planet, but for all their impressive features, there’s still plenty we don’t know about them. One particularly confounding mystery ...

But across various blue whale populations, high pregnancy rates of 33-50% annually seem to contradict the average 3.1% rate of sightings of blue whales involving mother-calf pairs.

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...

More than 150 whales were stranded on a remote Tasmanian beach. Picture: NRE Tasmania “The conditions that the team faced yesterday in attempts to refloat the whales proved very challenging and ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was ...