European aerospace giant Airbus confirmed Friday that it was shutting down its specialty freight business using colossal ...

The Beluga -- billed by Airbus as the world's biggest cargo plane in terms of volume transported -- looks something like a whale, with a rounded fuselage mounted on an Airbus A300-600 base.

The Beluga — billed by Airbus as the world’s biggest cargo plane in terms of volume transported — looks something like a whale, with a rounded fuselage mounted on an Airbus A300-600 base.

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century.

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...