Although we humans certainly do like to think of ourselves as smart, we only just discovered a new species of whale. The Rice's whale.

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

Anglers off the coast of Honduras captured rare footage of a pod of orcas eating a sperm whale, according to a new study.

It was long thought that both species of right whale lived to 70 to 75 years of age at most, but the new study found that it was much longer. Southern right whales were calculated to have a median ...

NOAA has proposed new speed restrictions for boats across the East Coast that Gov. Maura Healey hopes will be amended.

A group of about 75 endangered North Atlantic right whales was spotted off the western edge of Jeffreys Ledge. That's about ...

The hadal zone, as scientists call it, is located in the ocean trenches, more than 6,000 meters below the surface. This region is all darkness and intense pressure, yet... some rare species actually ...

Even if nature isn’t really your thing, or you think hikers are a bit mad (fair), I truly believe most people would leave this trail feeling something we all crave but often forget: contentment.

It is probably a first in the cathedral's 1,000-year history – a giant model of a sperm whale hanging from the ceiling.

Geneticists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries discovered that two distinct populations of killer whale in the ... discovered four new species of deep-sea octopus ...

The jumbo isopod has been named Bathynomus vaderi because its carapaced cranium resembles Darth Vader’s iconic helmet from ...

In its 2020 update of its "Red List of Threatened Species," the International Union for ... This was shortly after a baby right whale was found dead off the coast of New Jersey, with propeller wounds ...