The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

Second only in size to the blue whale, seeing a fin whale surface from the ocean's depths can leave you spellbound!

A complete fossil of a small baleen whale, estimated to be 13.5 to 16.5 million years old, has been excavated by the Santa ...

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The ...

Baleen whales are among the largest creatures in the ocean, but that doesn’t mean they’re safe from other animals. A pod of orcas can take a giant baleen whale down, and these filter-feeders ...

The minke whale often seen circling Long Beach Harbor was found dead, with cause of death under investigation.

Once four-legged land animals, whales evolved from ancestors Pakicetus, which lived along ancient Pakistani shores ...

Despite recent efforts by marine wildlife experts to reroute the animal to deeper waters, the minke whale was found dead on ...

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...