The bereaved whale mother who made headlines when she heartbreakingly grieved her dead baby for more than two weeks has given birth to a new calf, scientists said. The mama orca, named J35 by ...
A young humpback whale washed ashore in Long Beach on Monday morning — with authorities now working to determine why it died, according to police. “Early this morning, a juvenile humpback ...
Southern right whales in South Africa are bouncing back. But now they’re facing their biggest threat yet – the Anthropocene era — and letting us know why. An aerial view of southern right ...
North Atlantic right whales currently only live to about 22 years old, but a new study finds they should be able to live to over 130. Researchers from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks ...
Researchers examining southern right whales found that the median life span for the species was 73.4 years, and that 10 percent of individuals survived past 131.8 years. The report has combined ...
North Atlantic Right Whale #3720 and her calf. This still image is from a drone video taken by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources under NOAA Permit 20556. (Georgia Department of Natural ...
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A male humpback whale swam 8,106 miles (13,046 km) from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, mingling with other whale populations and potentially having sex with them along the way. A male humpback ...
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. The evolution of the greatest mammal on earth is a ...
Sperm whales live in the depths of the ocean. They dive as deep as 900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet) to forage and spend only about 10 minutes of every hour on the surface. Their world is cold and dark, ...
The whales started popping up recently, following massive schools of anchovies, a typical food source. Newport Coastal Adventure runs a sighting log that has tracked the first appearance of ...