Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

Researchers found that the whales had brought more nitrogen from their feeding grounds than the ocean’s natural processes (Alamy/PA) Whales transport vital nutrients from urine, placentas ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle on Sunday by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. The pod of Bigg ...

A team from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue found the whale dead on Friday morning. Teams have gone out to the beach after receiving reports of a long-finned pilot whale on the shore.

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A pair of endangered North Atlantic right whales have finally been spotted again off Florida's west coast, and the good news is the right whales appear to be headed back to the right ocean.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Protections for the endangered Rice's whale off Florida's coast were reduced after the Trump administration rescinded guidance for oil and gas ships to slow down ...

This includes some of the whale species that frequent the Salish Sea. So when whales go viral in other parts of the world, like the man who was recently swallowed and spit out by a humpback whale ...

Over the years we’ve seen whales in the wild enough times that I thought we had pretty much done it all. Then I saw a friend’s striking photos from the annual gray whale migration to Mexico ...

One of the world’s most endangered whales lost a layer of its protections last week after President Donald Trump’s administration rescinded guidance for oil and gas industry ships to slow down ...