Over the last 30 years, stranding incidents have increased among all whale, dolphin, and porpoise species near Scotland, ...

Blue whales, the Earth's largest animal, have gone silent, a development that has scientists worried about the future of the ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

A blue whale was spotted off the coast of Massachusetts—an incredibly rare sighting that hasn’t happened in the area for over ...

Despite being one of the largest animals on the planet, the limited population and vast territory of the North Atlantic right ...

A species of whale that has been extinct from the Atlantic Ocean for over 200 years was seen off the coast of Nantucket by researchers at the New England Aquarium on the first day of March. The ...

The creatures, which ranged in size from that of a fox to more than 50 feet long, divided their time between the coast and ...

Rising human exploitation of the oceans is pushing ever further into regions that scientists increasingly suspect are full of conscious life. New research into creatures from sperm whales to octopuses ...

LONDON — Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but knowing the mechanics behind that has been a mystery. Scientists now think they have an idea, and it’s something not ...

Around 52 million years ago, before the warm, rainy Eocene epoch, whales did not look anything like they do today. Instead, they appeared more like an animal that was a mix of both wolves and ...

Sperm whales, denizens of the deep ocean, rely on sound for survival in their extreme environment. They produce the loudest ...