Anton van Helden, an expert on some of the world’s rarest whales, was sitting on the couch in July recovering from surgery, ...

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New discoveries about the "rarest whale in the world" have been made after a first of its kind dissection in Dunedin.

A male humpback has completed the longest recorded migration for a whale from South America to Africa. Scientists explain why ...

Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of California are hunting whale sharks using a highly specialized set of strategies to attack them.

Fin whales are the second largest whale species on Earth, second only to the blue whale. They are a baleen whale species, ...

Spade-toothed whales are extremely rare. None have ever been spotted alive at sea. One surfaced in New Zealand in July and ...

This animation shows what happened when an American man was swallowed whole by a humpback whale off the coast of ...

Indohyus looked like a mouse-deer or a large racoon, but had the ears of a whale—and its fossil was found high up in the Himalayas.

Fishermen in Rameswaram found the carcass of an 18-foot whale calf at Pamban beach. Officials yet to ascertain the cause of ...