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

The increased presence of whales in the bay may be causing vessels to strike them, but pending necropsies will determine the ...

Three right whale mother-calf pairs have been spotted in Cape Cod Bay, where researchers are monitoring them. Why they are important.

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived on Earth, with some mature adults reaching 100 feet and tipping the scales up to 200 tons.

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 ...

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

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

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

Found on the southern coast of Peru, this amphibious creature had a tail and hooves and was the oldest preserved fossil of ...

Munching on a delicious tuna, an orca whale was seen making a visit to the Outer Banks, as a Florida-based aerial survey team with Clearwater Marine Aquarium confirmed ...

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

Timo Dersch had a close call with a humpback whale while freediving with orcas in the waters surrounding Norway ...