Nature enthusiasts from across the country on Thursday hopped on board a full-day boating adventure in the hopes of getting ...

It’s peak hour on the humpback highway off the east coast of Australia – yet other whale species aren’t doing nearly as well.

Here’s how it works. The world's largest animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), also devours more plastic than any other animal on Earth, a new study shows. Researchers have estimated ...

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz and local entrepreneurs are collaborating on a $350,000 restoration of the Seymour Center’s blue ...

The dispute comes down to two animals: the blue whale and the sperm whale. It's also between Hertz and decibels as measuring units. Hertz measures sound frequency, while decibels measure ...

The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches to 98 feet in length. The underwater call of the sperm whale, the earth’s loudest, registers at 230 decibels. For context ...

Those aboard a Cape Ann Whale Watch vessel on July 8 were amazed to witness a blue whale - the largest animal to have ever lived. "It was almost as long as our 115-foot boat," said the post on the ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an advance that could help better conserve the critically endangered species.

Staff with Cape Ann Whale Watch wrote on Facebook that during an excursion on July 4, a blue whale was spotted. “ We had heard the rumors but wouldn’t allow ourselves to get our hopes up ...

There could be a new contender for heaviest animal to ever live. While today's blue whale has long held the title, scientists have dug up fossils from an ancient giant that could tip the scales.

Last weekend, about 50 passengers and crew aboard the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center vessel American Star got a view of a blue whale. Such a sighting off the coast of New Jersey is rare ...

A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales. By Carl Zimmer Last August, a team of paleontologists announced that they ...