This past July 4th, a rare beaked whale washed up on a beach in New Zealand. This species is so elusive it has never been ...

A near-perfectly preserved 5-meter (16-foot) male was found washed up on a South Island beach in July. It was the first ...

Lauren H. DeLoach of South Carolina admitted to importing more than $18,000 worth of sperm whale parts from Australia, Latvia ...

Once four-legged land animals, whales evolved from ancestors Pakicetus, which lived along ancient Pakistani shores ...

But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery.

Some whales, like sperm whales and beaked whales, are classified as "toothed whales" because they have teeth. Baleen whales, on the other hand, have large, comb-like "baleen plates" that are made ...

What is it like kayaking where killer whales swim? If you paddle in the Puget Sound in Washington, you may find yourself face ...

Second only in size to the blue whale, seeing a fin whale surface from the ocean's depths can leave you spellbound!

A Beaufort man pleaded guilty in federal court following an investigation that found he illegally imported endangered whale ...

Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales in the world, reaching 45 tons and living for decades. Their populations were imperiled by historic whaling practices and they are still considered rare ...