Researchers have measured toxins in scat samples from 205 bowhead whales from the Beaufort Sea, collected over 19 years, and ...

Dive into the details behind their mind-blowing biology and discover how these mammals became and remain our planet's largest animals ever.

A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is the first to successfully recover from general anesthesia in captivity after a surgery to remove a network of cysts.

A new study reveals that humans used whale bones as tools 20,000 years ago, unlocking secrets of ancient coastal life and ocean ecology. (CREDIT: Domenic Biagini and Gone Whale Watching) ...

When blue whales give birth, their babies are already huge. A newborn blue whale calf is around 7 meters long and weighs about 3,000 kilograms, larger than most adult animals.

Radiocarbon dating suggests that these prehistoric whale bone tools are between 14,000 and 20,000 years old, which makes them “the oldest evidence of whale-bone working to our knowledge.” How Stone ...

Blue whale season is underway in San Diego, drawing locals and tourists alike to one tour company who had a hand in NBC's newest nature documentary.

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been sighted along the San Diego coastline, signaling the beginning of the blue whale watching season.

Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 years ago. New research reveals that Stone Age humans were systematically ...

MIRISSA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan waters are considered a haven for the largest creatures ever to have lived, the blue whale, a rare place for a resident, year-round population to thrive. In 2021 ...

The Object at Hand It took four years, a shipwright and help from the British to create the blue whale model installed in the National Museum of Natural History ...