For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that whales evolved from aquatic creatures as the oceans warmed and became more ...

In the late 1980s, a set of military ears listening for submarines instead picked up something far stranger: a solitary, ...

For decades, a single whale’s strange 52-hertz call has baffled scientists, raising haunting questions about its identity, ...

Whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are changing their feeding habits as ocean temperatures rise and food becomes harder to find.

Scientists continue to study whale and dolphin strandings to better understand the different threats they face.

Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to ...

Beaked whales spend most of their time swimming in dark depths, and as they become vulnerable to extinction, this study ...

Whales are the largest living animals that have ever existed on this Earth. A blue whale growing to a whopping 110 feet in length, outweighing even the dinosaurs. But curiously their story begins from ...

Blue Whales are believed to be the largest animals ever. Now they’re an endangered species. This month, no less than three blue whales have been found dead in the Santa Barbara Channel, and evidence ...

For centuries, humans have drawn a line between themselves and other species, initially claiming that other animals couldn't feel pain. Science proved they could. Then the argument shifted: Animals ...

Baleen whales don’t have teeth. Instead, they use baleen, a filtering system that lets the largest animals on Earth feed on ...