Cetacean Opps was just recently canonized in the Star Trek universe, but much about them remains unknown, but all of that is ...

A dead minke whale washed up along the Ventura County coast last week, but the tides kept a team from examining the young female until Saturday. The whale, initially reported on Tuesday, was found ...

The blue whale may no longer be the largest animal ever The 37-million-year-old fossil bones were so large, experts thought they were boulders. They may have come from the heaviest animal that ...

The Museum blue whale skeleton died in Wexford in Ireland in 1891. It was killed by lifeboat pilot Ned Wickham, whose descendants came to pay tribute.

That’s because these blue whale bones are still leaking oil, despite the cetacean being dead for over two decades.

The researchers performed a synteny analysis between the chromosomes from the humpback whale reference genome and the chromosomes of a blue whale. Synteny analyses can also indicate evolutionary ...

The dolphin, born with hook-shaped "thumb" flippers, was spotted twice this summer by researchers with the Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute.

'The early collection of material allowed researchers to get a better idea of the anatomy, biology and ecology of everything - from blue whales to harbour porpoises, and everything in between.' Since ...

Researchers with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) are asking for your help in tracking ...

The snaggletoothed cetacean used teeth projected from its snout to stun prey, much like modern sawfish do.