An orca who captured the world’s attention in 2018 after she carried her dead newborn calf for weeks appears to be a new ...

The melon-headed whale displayed behavior identical to that of bottlenose dolphins. Despite the disappearance of her biological calf at around 18 months old, the mother dolphin continued to care for ...

Beluga whales are listed as Least Concern on the IUCN red list, though they do face challenges. Beluga’s heads are called melons. Really. The melon is a protrusion on a beluga’s forehead, made up of ...

This is important, because once these whales leave their high-latitude feeding grounds, they have a finite amount of energy available to invest in their offspring over a 3–5 month fasting period, with ...

Researchers with Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute sighted a North Atlantic right whale mom and calf on Dec. 1. five miles off Sapelo Island, GA. Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research ...

Madurai: The carcass of a blue whale calf washed ashore in Pamban on the Rameswaram island on Wednesday morning. Fishermen found the female calf, weighing two tonnes, on the shore near the Pamban ...

Using a combination of body length measurements of mother-fetus pairs from historical whaling records, length estimates of mother-calf pairs using drones, and tissue samples from deceased whales ...

New Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) images confirm sightings near Amelia Island, including a mother whale with her calf and two adult females. Recommended Videos Wildlife ...

A 75.6% decline in the number of humpback whale mothers with calves was seen and documented off Hawaiʻi between 2013 and 2018. In Southeast Alaska, a recent study shows calf production was ...

A North American right whale mom and calf were spotted off the coast of Amelia Island, Florida, on Dec. 9. Getty Images/iStockphoto Two rare North American right whales — a mom and baby — have ...