Gray whales travel from the Arctic to Mexico each year. And they're not finding enough to eat, scientists say.

New footage from Hawaiian waters shows something that should be impossible: unlikely companions sharing dinner without any ...

Blue #whales are like a Guardian of the ocean, they carry the soul and life of all species underwater. Inspired by them, we ...

The directors of 'Ocean with David Attenborough' share their favorite locations from the new documentary film.

The conflict between protecting endangered species and supporting vital cultures is at play in other places as well. In Alaska, where a plan aims to revive the Chinook salmon population by suspending ...

Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed.

These maps trace the migratory superhighways that connect whales to critical breeding, feeding, and social habitats across ocean basins—routes essential not only for whale survival but for the health ...

“In terms of weight it could eat a fully grown African elephant every day,” author and biologist Mark Carwardine wrote of Sri Lanka’s blue whales in his On the Trail of the Whale ...

Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants. Despite their huge size, they eat a diet of tiny shrimp-like ...

"WE ARE INVENTING A NEW PUTTY MADE OUT OF SHRIMP SHELLS THAT WE'RE GOING TO USE TO REPAIR SOME OF THE BONES, WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE BLUE WHALES LIKE THIS EAT TINY LITTLE SHRIMP" THE ...

Female blue whales feed heavily in the summer because they largely refrain from eating when nursing their young. Newborn blue whales are born measuring over 22 feet in length and weighing around 2 ...

Her weight was equivalent to about 30 elephants or 2,500 people. Given their magnitude, blue whales eat 20 million to 50 million calories per day, roughly the equivalent of 80,000 Big Macs ...