From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the ...

At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several ...

Dozens of whales were rescued after becoming stranded on a remote beach in northern Iceland. Around 60 pilot whales, known ...

Other animals including some early humans, non-human primates, sea otters, elephants, and bird species are known to use ...

Researchers bring a SETI approach to the question of what—if anything—humpbacks’ underwater smoke rings might be trying to ...

Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something ...

As big as a large sperm whale at more than 17 meters ... In fact, it was the first giant creature to ever inhabit the Earth that we know of.

By Peter Corkeron In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are ...

While bubble rings have been seen in dolphins and beluga whales, this is the first well-documented case in baleen whales ... Check us out on EarthSnap, a free app brought to you by Eric Ralls and ...

For her first assignment, Vega traveled to the island nation of Dominica where she reported on sperm whales, one of the ocean's largest marine mammals. Sperm whales are considered a "vulnerable ...

The problem is we don’t really know what the whales are saying.

Researchers from the SETI Institute have recently identified an unusual form of communication used by humpback whales in Earth's oceans, which may offer valuable insights for the s ...