A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't ...

And in came Reeves and other researchers, who utilized both wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale predation on white sharks in Australia.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s been the Grammys’ running narrative for almost a decade now: when will the Grammys’ all-time most-winning artist, a ...

Congratulations, Republicans. You caught your white whale. An employee of USAID who wished to remain anonymous protests outside of the USAID headquarters on Feb. 3, in Washington, DC. An employee ...

An entangled and “exhausted” humpback whale was recently rescued off the coast of the United Kingdom, video footage shows. Photo from Silas Baisch, UnSplash An entangled humpback whale was ...

Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler ... also indicated that she was nibbled on by a great white shark after she died and might have been injured from ...

Of course, there are many ideas out there about what Pluton truly is, but according to the recent clues, and some that were left behind long ago, Pluton may well end up being a Giant whale.

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for their complex songs. New research ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...

Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human language. Whale song is more similar to human language than ...

An orca calf less than 24 hours old has been spotted in a rare sighting of a newborn killer whale in Western Australia. The animals are regularly seen off Bremer Bay in summer, but calves are ...