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

Learn why blue whale calves are prime orca targets and how their massive mothers use slipstreams, allies, and shockwaves to keep them alive.

The Harte Research Institute warned Texas beachgoers to give blue dragon sea slugs plenty of space, because, while the creatures are striking, they can deliver a painful sting ...

Join us for an exciting museum exploration as we follow a visitor through a truly unique museum experience. From the moment she enters her favorite room, with its organic concrete shapes and expansive ...

Pregnancy is often measured in weeks and months. For humans, nine months can feel long enough to change an entire life. But in the wild, some mothers wait far longer. Their bodies slow down, their ...

With warm — relative to Alaska — spring waters, migratory rest-stops and great feeding grounds, Los Angeles County’s coast is considered part of the “Blue Highway,” a crucial whale migration corridor ...

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 ...

Scientists are investigating the remains of a deceased male Fin whale discovered in the surf in Barnegat Light on Feb. 20, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine. The stranding ...

ST. LOUIS—Science Center fans and visitors will soon be able to stand beside an 80-foot Blue Whale and hear surround-sound of its whale calls. The traveling "Blue Whale Story" exhibition will be in St ...

A necropsy is expected to be performed on Thursday after a dead whale washed ashore in Newport Beach on Wednesday. According to Sophia Felger of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, the large whale was ...

For decades, a thin plastic audio disc sat forgotten in an archive drawer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Recorded on March 7, 1949, near Bermuda, it had been labeled with vague notes ...

Scientists in Indonesia have tagged a pygmy blue whale for the first time using a drone. Data from the tag revealed a previously unknown path used by the species on its southern migration from ...