Blue whales consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day, new research estimates. This suggests the omnipresent pollution poses a bigger danger to the world's largest animal than ...

Increasingly, some politicians and national delegations at fisheries organizations meetings argue that whale populations should be reduced because whales compete with human beings for ever-scarcer ...

Orcas have long been revered for their intelligence, adaptability, and group-hunting strategies. But one scientific review spanning two decades has revealed a little-known, yet intriguing behavior.

If ever I fell short of ancient episodes about which to wince in the depths of night I could reach for the time I grossly, incredibly, misidentified a dead whale washed up on the strand below. It was ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

Why is marine life eating plastic? Scientists say their sonar is being fooled. How do dolphins and other toothed whales mistake plastic for food? At the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, ...

The rare sight of a group of offshore killer whales tearing a live shark apart has been captured on film by a drone. Slater Moore was whale-watching when he spotted the two females and two calves in ...

It’s a modern day Jonah and the Whale story: A Massachusetts lobster diver was briefly swallowed up by a humpback whale on Friday, and lived to tell the tale. Michael Packard, a Cape Cod commercial ...