A new study led by Griffith University researchers has found that current risk assessments of vessel strikes on large whales, ...

While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims in — its skin is actually ...

In Cabo San Lucas, the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Cortez meet, resulting in a biodiverse area that "transforms into a ...

A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark has conducted the first hearing test of a live baleen whale.

The legal charity Ecojustice filed a petition to the ministries of Environment and Climate Change Canada and Fisheries and ...

Russian rescuers returned a young female killer whale to the Sea of Okhotsk on Thursday after the orca beached in the far ...

Scientists aren’t sure how the juvenile female whale died. Also unclear: how long the bus-sized carcass will remain on tidal ...

Andrew Trites, director of the University of British Columbia's marine mammal research unit, has identified the whales as a ...

Japan’s whaling practices are in the spotlight following the arrest of activist Paul Watson. Are they a deeply rooted ...

A new study has quantified the risk for whale-ship collisions worldwide for four geographically widespread ocean giants that are threatened by shipping: blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales.

Water shooting from the spout can reach as high as 30 feet in the air! Watch a blue whale blow water in the video below: The blue whale possesses a small dorsal fin near the rear of its body and ...