North Atlantic right whales produced at least 23 calves this season, giving researchers hope for the future of the highly endangered species.

Sperm whales are a highly intelligent species, and new discoveries about their communication implies a complex language ...

The gray whale, which some locals affectionately named Willapa Willy, was found on Saturday afternoon after first being spotted swimming up the Willapa River last week. By Livia Albeck-Ripka The young ...

Marine mammal researchers are investigating the cause of death for a humpback whale that washed up on the Jersey Shore Wednesday morning. The dead whale was first spotted floating in the ocean around ...

For a few astonishing moments beneath the surface, scientists watched something almost never seen in the wild unfold as other whales closed in around a laboring mother. Scientists have captured rare ...

One of the world’s rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the giant mammal to ...

One windsurfer is lucky to be alive after colliding with a massive gray whale in San Francisco. Eric Kramer was windsurfing at Crissy Field when the encounter happened. Kramer was gliding across the ...

When marine biologist Shane Gero spotted a plume of blood spreading across the water where a group of sperm whales had gathered in the Caribbean, he feared the worst — injury to one of the whales, ...

Quick Take A group of well-studied orcas known as Southern Resident orcas are endangered and face multiple threats to survival. New research shows they interact more with other populations than ...

FLORENCE, Ore. — The corpse of a gray whale washed ashore near Florence this week, Oregon State Parks confirmed, and its cause of death remains under investigation. Oregon State Parks learned that the ...

A team of researchers including Museum scientists published today the most comprehensive documentation of a sperm whale birth ever recorded. The two studies document an entire sperm whale unit—which ...

BERLIN — A whale that was stranded for days in shallow water at a Baltic Sea resort in Germany has swum free from a sandbank overnight after a last-ditch rescue effort. But it isn’t out of danger yet.