Lauren H. DeLoach of South Carolina admitted to importing more than $18,000 worth of sperm whale parts from Australia, Latvia ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

There are several species, but all are identified ... heads and jaws accommodate hundreds of baleen “teeth.” Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates ...

A near-perfectly preserved 5-meter (16-foot) male was found washed up on a South Island beach in July. It was the first ...

A Beaufort man pleaded guilty in federal court following an investigation that found he illegally imported endangered whale ...

Well-known species of toothed whale include sperm whales, dwarf and pygmy sperm whales, belugas and narwhals. Some whales have hundreds of teeth. Others, like the narwhal, have only one or two.

The Justice Department said Lauren DeLoach, 69, would instruct suppliers to label shipments as "plastic" to avoid seizure ...