In rare video footage, a male whale shark has been spotted biting at his female partner during courtship. Before now, we knew ...

Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from the Eocene epoch.

A whale spotted in Hong Kong waters was found to have several head injuries ... “It is uncommon to see these species here,” society vice-chairwoman Viena Mak Hei-man said.

Whales are not only the biggest animals on the planet, but they’re among the longest-lived, too. A new analysis reveals that ...

Another of 2024's mysterious plant discoveries made by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was a species of rattan ...

State officials were notified Friday morning of a newborn humpback whale calf that was found dead on a beach in Kihei.

A most rare whale was found beached in New Zealand near a river estuary in ... map the whale's relationship to the few others of the species found, learn what it eats, and perhaps provide clues ...

The Fauna & Flora international nature conservation group has identified the weird and wonderful species at risk of ...

Inside the cores were fossilized remains — and a species new to ... are often found around hydrothermal vents, hydrocarbon seeps or with organic falls like sunken wood and whale carcasses.

Scientists had believed Southern right whales have a lifespan of about 70 years, but a new study shows that endangered ...