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

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth, with some mature adults reaching 100 feet and tipping the ...

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

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 sound reverberated through the depths at 52 hertz, puzzling those listening to this solo ringing out from the ocean’s symphony. The frequency was much higher than a blue whale or its cousin ...

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 ...

“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 ...

which opened in the Sant Ocean Hall in November, features a baleen plate from a deceased whale along with plastic extracted from the animal’s stomach. Since 2007, the blue whale skull has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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