F or the very first time, scientists have spotted a living ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, a rare, deep-diving species that ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have “baleen” in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales ...

Right whales, still recovering from intensive whale hunting, have added a few more individuals to their small population.

An alarming rate of carcasses of whales with empty stomachs washing ashore has been observed in recent years, which has been troubling conservationists and researchers. The famously mesmerizing songs ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an ...