A humpback whale near Glacier Bay National Park was recently injured by a suspected vessel strike near Willoughby Island. The ...

Over two decades, orcas have been observed offering prey to humans in 34 recorded encounters across the globe. From stingrays ...

NOAA Fisheries is monitoring the situation. Scientists raise red flags after observing concerning new whale behavior: 'We're ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

Comprehensive screening analysis of organohalogen compounds in blubber samples of 11 toothed whale species stranded on Japanese coasts revealed species-specific accumulation profiles, with a total ...

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 ...

Tuesday marked 54 years since a dead whale was infamously blown up on a beach, showering bystanders and cars with whale bits.

On June 27, Janet Neilson, a biologist with the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, saw an adult humpback whale near ...

Beluga whales aren't hiding legs under their thick, rubbery skin. But a popular image of a surfacing beluga has for years created the curious illusion of a whale with legs and knees. The image ...

I know it's hard to see in the plastic, but it gives you a sense of the scale of how big a pilot whale is, about 18 feet. Blubber tissue is one of the really important ones we take.

The nearly 1,065-pound whale is currently recovering in a medical habitat at the aquarium, but an expert says she's not yet ...

The main reason that the baleen whales migrate is so that they can give birth in the warmer tropical waters. When baleen whale calves are born they have underdeveloped blubber, which is the layer ...