Baleen whales are some of the most unique and breathtaking animals. These huge marine mammals are some of the biggest to have ...

Baleen whales are unique and breathtaking animals and are known for undertaking some of the longest migrations in the world.

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

Recent research by Hueter, De la Parra and others has shown that whale sharks primarily eat zooplankton in nutrient ... The water was smooth and thick with reddish plankton.

Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. As of Monday, thousands of the critters — called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors — have been ...

Whales eat krill, shrimp, zooplankton ... in the process also trapping lots of tiny crustaceans, plankton, and other tiny fish in their baleen hairs. They then lick the fish off of their baleen with ...

A minke whale that was swimming in Long Beach Harbor earlier this month died from domoic acid poisoning, according to ...

Four dead whales have been found in the San Francisco Bay area in less than two weeks, with some experts expressing concern.

Simon Pierce, who has studied whale sharks globally, said he has photographed suspected mating scars on female sharks in St.

The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself ...