Whale watching season has begun off the coast of San Diego, and in at least one case, it’s had an unforgettable beginning. ...

A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale, swimming in the Gulf off the Florida coast, was captured on video by SeaTrek ...

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

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, with many species migrating long distances between their feeding and mating grounds, where they ...

Whales are some of the largest known creatures to exist (or, in the case of the blue whale, to have ever existed) on Earth, with some species weighing up to 200 tons—and while many find the ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

A complete carcass of a fin whale was discovered off the coast of Yilan County, the first time the world’s second-largest marine mammal has been discovered in its entirety near Taiwan, the Taiwan ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt,” according to a new study. Photo from Venti Views, UnSplash It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh ...

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