Dolphins and porpoises are actually whales. But whales are whales too. And so are narwhals. Sorry for springing that on you ...

There are mainly two families of whales: baleen whales and toothed whales. There are 14 species of baleen whales including ...

A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't ...

A pair of rare and critically endangered whales has journeyed past their usual course, appearing in the Gulf Coast where they ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

Koala and Curlew, two endangered female North Atlantic right whales have gone off course, perplexing researchers.

From December through March every year, the waters off Georgia’s coast provide calving grounds for the estimated 70 remaining ...