In a rare and exciting twist for Oman’s wildlife watchers, a Bryde’s whale has been spotted for the very first time in the ...

Female right whales are known to migrate to Atlantic coastal waters off the Southeast U.S. coast to give birth to calves, but ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

This blue whale skull is one of the largest in any collection on earth. Chris Gunn By the turn of the 20th century, the United States National Museum—now the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries ...

Tourists and researchers witnessed a pod of orcas hunt and kill an endangered pygmy blue whale. © Robert Pittman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Every summer ...