Preliminary data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 34 whales were found entangled in fishing ...

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

Only seven spade-toothed whales have ever been identified, and the species has never been seen alive. After one washed ashore ...

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

The endangered whales are North Atlantic right whales, which number fewer than 400 and are vulnerable to ship collisions and ...

Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on the offensive. Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the ...

Back in July, a mysterious whale carcass washed ashore on the South Island of New Zealand. It was 16 feet long and weighed ...

Geneticists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries discovered that two distinct populations of killer whale in the ... discovered four new species of deep-sea octopus ...

But any initial disbelief from scientists was warranted: The spade-toothed species, part of the beaked whale family ... mainland New Zealand, in 1874, as well as partial remains found decades ...