Explore the immense world of blue whales, their tragic past, and stunning science discoveries. How does ocean health affect ...

Officials say it was "perfectly human" to attempt to free the animal despite many warnings from conservationists about the humpback's health and stress level. Despite the carcass potentially carrying ...

Gray whales are washing up on North America’s Pacific coast in alarming numbers, again. The culprit: Starvation and a lack of ...

The public stranding of a young humpback exposes tensions between animal rights activism and other choices around biodiversity ...

When a humpback whale became entangled in a craypot line off Kaikōura last week, witnesses described it thrashing in distress ...

For years, scientists studying bowhead whales have relied on a simple idea: if a whale makes a long, square or U-shaped dive, it's feeding time. A new study demonstrates that assumption may not hold ...

Australian southern right whales visit a broader range of foraging habitats compared to the neighboring New Zealand population, according to a team of international researchers. Subscribe to our ...

After a dismal calving season last year, the North Atlantic right whale saw more than double the number of births this season ...

This past October, AWI representatives attended back-to-back annual meetings of the Ropeless Consortium and the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts ...

Whale and Dolphin Conservation was especially downbeat, warning that the whale had no long-term chance of survival and had suffered skin damage because of the lack of salinity in ...

At least seven endangered whales have been found dead or seriously injured, or gone missing since mid-December, including five North Atlantic right whales on the Atlantic Coast and two fin whales on ...