Boaters got the chance to see a "powerful display of strength and energy" during their "spectacular adventure." ...

A humpback whale was severely injured in Glacier Bay. National Park Service staff say they first saw the injury last Friday, ...

Baleen whales, including today’s blue, humpback, and fin whales rely on sounds to live in their watery world.Their songs must be able travel far in the murky, dark ocean so that they can find ...

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve biologist Janet Neilson spotted a humpback whale with a deep gash behind its dorsal ...

Somewhere between 830 and 1,153 fin whales, along with a handful of humpback and blue whales, had gathered to gorge themselves on a dense patch of krill off Coronation Island, which lies north of ...

The whale that was stranded in Potter Pond in South Kingstown Thursday, a juvenile fin, was euthanized that night. Officials with the Mystic Aquarium said the animal looked emaciated and was ...

The fin whale that washed ashore on Sunset Beach State Park Monday will be left to decompose ... “It may sound strange but it is a great nutrient boost,” said Seaside Aquarium spokesperson ...

All whales rely heavily on sound to understand information about the world around them. Researchers at the Smithsonian Museum created detailed 3-D images of 56 whale fetuses from 15 different species ...

The Cape Ann buoy has picked up sounds from fin whales on most days, with possible detections of right and humpback whales so far. Data from the buoys is sent back to shore every two hours, ...

Because baleen whales — of which there are 16 species, including Humpback, Blue and Fin whales — are too large to study in captivity, biologists have had to infer their hearing ability from ...

A dead 60-foot fin whale washed up on a shore in Ireland on Sunday. Researchers came to collect samples and perform a necropsy on the large animal. However, the project had to be abandoned out of ...

Conservation groups are alarmed that the status of fin whales as a threatened species on Canada’s West Coast is about to be downgraded just as the dangers of LNG shipping and climate change are ...