Despite not having bones, sharks can grow pretty large. There’s the aforementioned whale shark, roughly the size of a bowling ...

Brave rescuers risk their own safety to free animals like humpback whales that become entangled in ropes and other fishing ...

Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to see the biggest animal on Earth and the group is calling it a “once in ...

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

A massive sea creature was spotted off the coast of California, leaving onlookers “excited.” On June 8, a group of boaters got the chance to encounter a blue whale — on World Oceans Day of all days, ...

The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a ...

Whales may again swim close to Seacoast shores this summer ... The Portsmouth-based Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation is reminding boaters, whale watchers and sightseers to keep a ...

It was something they never expected to see: the largest mammal in the world swimming ... the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center vessel American Star got a view of a blue whale.

A blue whale in the shipping lane off Sri Lanka’s southern coast. Image by Simon Payne. Nanayakkara said he’s concerned about the emergence of “swimming with the whales” tours.

The blue whale is so large, it dwarfs a pod of dolphins swimming in front of it. The dolphins quickly scatter as the whale opens its huge mouth and takes in ocean water and whatever is swimming ...

there is more plastic swimming in the world’s oceans than there are whales. The blue and white sculpture is 11 metres, or four storeys, tall, and appears to be leaping from the water towards the ...

Blue whale mother and calf swimming together in Gulf of California in Baja, Mexico (Diane Gendron/Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas) A new study, published in the journal Endangered ...