An early season blue whale sighting has ocean watchers hopeful there will be more of the world’s largest animal showing up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Endangered blue whales made a rare and exciting appearance off Cape Cod recently, thrilling marine biologists and marking two ...

Whale watching charter owners said they couldn’t remember a time over the last decade when blue whales, the earth’s largest mammals, showed up this late off Southern California. In recent years, their ...

Blue whales are the largest mammals in the world, and they spend much of their lives roaming the deep ocean, where they feed on vast amounts of krill. Blue whales usually inhabit the open sea and are ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent Monterey Bay study found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia ...

The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains dolphins, porpoises, and whales), but one surpasses them all. Meet the ...

Two blue whales were recently spotted by a team of scientists from the New England Aquarium. This marks the first time the aquarium has documented a blue whale in the southern New England survey area.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...

Busselton Jetty in Western Australia, famed as the longest wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere, is a popular spot for peaceful strolls and stunning ocean views. However, over the weekend it ...

Every year beginning in October, thousands of humpback whales start to leave their warm nurseries in the Eastern Tropical Pacific—an ocean stretch spanning the west coast of Mexico to the northern tip ...