Visitors to Santa Cruz's Seymour Marine Discovery Center can experience the iconic whale skeleton known as Ms. Blue as ...

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.

Six million years ago, those same geologic forces severed the connection between the Baja peninsula and the mainland, forming ...

"The layers of material within these ear plugs actually [grab] information about the health of the animal and also the ...

Could an enormous blue whale make a mistake and swallow a dolphin? Learn why it's not possible for blue whales to eat ...

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 ...

Industrial krill vessel fishing among feeding whales in Antarctica. Photo by Youenne Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd Global CEO Alex Cornelissen, near one of the krill super trawlers.

Sea ice cover can block whales’ paths, but a loss of sea ice that hosts algae the whales’ eat could be to blame for population hits, Joshua Stewart, an associate professor at Oregon State University ...

Happily, Dionne has come up with a solution. “Why don’t we use the internationally agreed upon standard of measurement – the blue whale?” The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in length.