For Massachusetts, the North Atlantic right whale represents more than a large animal moving through offshore waters. It ...

A freediving instructor had once-in-a-lifetime moment when a massive Bryde’s whale suddenly emerged during a feeding frenzy ...

An endangered whale has been discovered dead on the bow of a container ship docked in New Jersey, prompting authorities to investigate its cause of death and arrange for carcass removal. At such a ...

A freediving instructor had an encounter of a lifetime with a massive whale while diving off Mexico’s Pacific coast. Emily Marzilli, 27, was diving with friends near a large sardine bait ball when ...

When we imagine the earliest humans brave enough to hunt a forty-ton whale, the image that usually comes to mind is frosty ...

The blue whale, which uses baleen to filter its prey from ocean water and can reach lengths of over 100 feet, is the largest vertebrate animal that has ever lived. On the list of the planet’s most ...

Underwater photographer Deron Verbeck was diving off the coast of Kona, Hawaii when he spotted an oceanic whitetip shark with strange scarring across its head and back. He snapped a photo of the shark ...

Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...