About 80,000 pounds of illegally imported whale meat was found in dog food in Finland, officials said. The meat — sourced from minke whales, a protected species — was shipped from Norway in 2022 and ...

Whales are not only the biggest animals on the planet, but they’re among the longest-lived, too. A new analysis reveals that ...

Some whale species may live twice as long as we thought — if we let them.

We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.

Whales can live way longer than scientists had thought, with potential lifespans as much as double previous estimates.

A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year ...

There are about 370 North Atlantic right whales alive. In the last week, NOAA has spotted three entangled in fishing gear, ...

But our new analysis of the longevity of two close relatives of bowheads shows that other whale species also have potentially extremely long lives. Understanding how long wild animals live has ...

Rarely does one think of a fin whale. And that would be logical considering the species has been on a slow recovery since ...