However, almost all of the largest family by size, the baleen whales, are massive—and scientists have only recently ...

Biologists say the whale, believed to be a young female, was first reported Saturday lying on mudflats near a popular trail.

While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” its color is more a reflection of the water it swims in — its skin is actually ...

In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million ...

Scientists have worked out how some of the largest whales in the ocean produce their haunting and complex songs. Humpbacks and other baleen whales have evolved a specialised "voice box" that ...

Killer whales off Canada's Atlantic coast continue to be contaminated with dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals that ...

A team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare performed a necropsy on a minke whale carcass at the town of ...

Specifically, the population of humpback whales, which remain endangered in some parts of the world, appears to be increasing. These baleen whales have always traveled through the Bay Area, heading ...

As crowds of onlookers trekked across Anchorage's tidal mud flats to see the carcass of a 47-foot fin whale that washed ashore over the weekend, biologists on Monday continued searching for clues how ...