A humpback whale briefly engulfed a kayaker off the coast of Chile in an incident caught on camera. Experts say it couldn't have swallowed him even if it wanted to.

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

From marathon treks by gray whales across thousands of kilometres to shorter seasonal excursions by minkes, migration routes ...

A dig near the hamlet of Hezingen uncovered 190 treasures at the former pagan site dating back to the 8th century, where the ...

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

South Korea’s first attempt to explore potential oil and gas reserves in the East Sea has fallen short, with the government and the Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) confirming on Feb. 6 that the ...

Find how Ms. Blue, the 87-foot-long blue whale skeleton, at Seymour Marine Discovery Center is being carefully restored.

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white ... "We know that white sharks are key regulators of ecosystem structure and functions, so it's very important we preserve ...

Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near Portland in Victoria in 2023, the Flinders University-led study identified that killer whales were ...

The exhausted whale was finally freed on Friday afternoon, with rescuers continuing to monitor its movements. A member of the public first spotted the distressed whale at around 8.30am on Thursday and ...