Ira Gershwin put it like this: “Oh Jonah, he lived in the whale, / For he made his home in / That fish’s abdomen.” But Gershwin, or perhaps the character in Porgy and Bess who sings it ...

The New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts a 25-hour “read-a-thon” each year of Melville’s tome about one captain’s obsession with ...

New Bedford's installing a statue of Herman Melville based on his epic "Moby-Dick," the story of a whaling captain and his ...

9.75 x 13.5 in. (24.8 x 34.3 cm.) ...

NBC News worked with artists to capture the biggest stories from the year. Here are a few stunning illustrations and ...

A 47-foot fin whale that washed up on Anchorage’s tidal mudflats in November is still drawing visitors, a month later. Why?

Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on the offensive. Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the ...

Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries, an expert said Friday. The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale ...

Art on the Underground 2025: the whale tail that stopped a train crash honoured among new tube art commissions - Whales, a ...

New Zealand Department of Conservation When a 16-foot, 3,000-pound mystery whale washed ashore on the South Island of New Zealand in July, even the world’s foremost cetacean experts were taken ...

Ships in the Shannon Estuary have been asked to reduce their speed to avoid hitting a humpback whale, which has been spotted in an Irish river for the first time. Fears have been raised of a ...

A young humpback whale washed ashore in Long Beach on Monday morning — with authorities now working to determine why it died, according to police. “Early this morning, a juvenile humpback ...