New research reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years -- almost twice as long as previously understood. New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales ...

Two North Atlantic right whales that were entangled in fishing lines were spotted in waters off Nantucket last week, including one whose injuries may prove fatal, the National Oceanic and ...

Sperm whales live in the depths of the ocean. They dive as deep as 900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet) to forage and spend only about 10 minutes of every hour on the surface. Their world is cold and dark, ...

Most shipping paths cross whale habitats, a recent analysis concluded, making ship collisions a “major threat” to the world’s whales. The study, published in Science last month, conducted a ...

Pictures and videos have revealed new, specialised hunting techniques used by killer whales to attack the world's largest fish, according to scientists. On four occasions caught on video ...

A synthetic bag found inside the intestines of a whale that became stranded in Hong Kong waters is “highly likely” to have resulted in the animal’s death as the piece of rubbish could have ...

A fascinating, yet unsettling behavior, the researchers who recently published that orcas here are hunting whale sharks, the world’s largest fish. These predation events, documented between 2018 ...

A male humpback whale swam 8,106 miles (13,046 km) from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, mingling with other whale populations and potentially having sex with them along the way. A male humpback ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of ...

Scientists in New Zealand have begun a historic dissection of the rarest whale species in the world. The discovery of a male spade-toothed whale—which washed up near the fishing village of ...

An amazing sight off the west coast of Vancouver Island has been captured on camera and it all began when a whale was spotted surfacing in Barkley Sound. The humpback whale, along with some sea ...

The vast ice sheets that historically kept killer whales out of the Arctic Ocean are melting as the region rapidly warms. Two small, genetically distinct groups of killer whales now live in the ...