Once four-legged land animals, whales evolved from ancestors Pakicetus, which lived along ancient Pakistani shores ...

Despite recent efforts by marine wildlife experts to reroute the animal to deeper waters, the minke whale was found dead on ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

For years, a strange and unsettling noise coming from the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, puzzled scientists.

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the longest migration of any mammal,” says Roman. “So they connect areas close to ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

For nearly a week, families and eager marine life enthusiasts visited Long Beach's Rainbow Harbor after a minke whale was spotted in and around Catallina Landing. "We spotted it in multiple areas," ...

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

The 25-foot whale doesn’t seem sick or injured, but the hope is that the whale can soon find its way out to sea.

Before whales became the ocean’s majestic giants that could swallow a whole kiyak, they were land-dwelling creatures that ...