Picture this. You’re on a whale watching trip in an exotic locale, when a giant humpback whale swims up next to the boat. It ...

Niue is one of the only places in the world that allows ethically swimming with whales in a carefully regulated way that ...

Equipped with powerful jaws and finely serrated teeth, paleontologists say the 43-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile deserves the name Tylosaurus rex.

Climate change is pushing starving gray whales into the San Francisco Bay in unusual numbers, where ship strikes killed at ...

Seventy-three million years ago, in Alaska's dark and frozen landscape, a group of small, rodent-like creatures was quietly ...

Two humpback whales have made record-breaking crossings between Australia and Brazil. Scientists say the whales were ...

A humpback whale nicknamed Timmy, whose plight fascinated Germans, died after being towed back to the open sea in a rescue operation.

A humpback whale that underwent a rescue operation in Germany two weeks ago after beaching itself there has been found dead near a Danish island, officials said Saturday. "It can now be confirmed that ...

For those people who have been living in a total isolation, cut off from all other people and forms of communication for the ...

The skeleton, recovered from a 2015 Gold Beach stranding, will be suspended in a swimming pose in the center's east courtyard ...

A research team of Cal Poly statisticians and marine biologists from UC San Diego have developed a new way to monitor local whale populations by measuring the abundance of the microorganisms they eat.

They are big. They are beautiful. And they are back. The return of the humpback whale to greater numbers than observed in decades is part of a larger revival of marine mammals in the Salish Sea. It is ...