The PBS series Monstrum examined the ancient Japanese legend of Bake-kujira, a ghostly whale that seeks vengeance on humans.

Meet Livyatan melvillei—a prehistoric sperm whale that truly lived up to the name “leviathan.” In this video, we dive into ...

The biggest blue whale ever recorded weighed 190 tonnes, according to Guinness World Records. But the researchers estimated the ancient whale’s weight range was between 85 and 340 tonnes ...

One of the first cetaceans, Pakicetus, was a goat-sized creature that lived along the banks of lakes and rivers in ...

"The anatomical differences between whales and terrestrial mammals are so great that innumerable in-between stages must have paddled and swam the ancient seas before a whale as we know it appeared ...

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

It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales. In doing so, it lost its legs, and all of its vital systems became adapted to a ...

This image shows the upper jaw and skull of Maiabalaena nesbittae. Whales were the first mammals to evolve baleen, and no other mammal uses any anatomical structure even remotely similar to it to ...

NOVA: When Whales Could Walk Wednesday, April 2 at 9:00 pm In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...