Out of the blue, a curious beluga whale approached—calm, playful, and full of personality. In this heartwarming encounter, ...

There was a boom in whale bones between 17,500 and 16,000 BC, when tools have been found as far away as Germany. "Then it stopped quite abruptly" for reasons that are not clear, Petillon said.

This is the hilarious moment a playful beluga whale scared a toddler at an aquarium in China. The playful sea creature was ...

The agency didn’t adequately study how acid mine drainage or construction pollution could impact the water source for endangered species like the Cook Inlet beluga whale, the groups said Monday in a ...

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2015 file photo, a visitor views a beluga whale at the Mystic Seaport Aquarium, in Mystic, Conn. Animal rights advocates have filed a lawsuit in an effort to stop the aquarium ...

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Until last week, a secretive fleet of ships ferrying Russian oil around the world showed no clear links to the Kremlin. That changed when, in a dramatic escalation, Russia used a fighter jet in an ...

By Elizabeth Anne Brown Run-ins with humans are a leading cause of death for humpback whales — and new research may explain why these gentle giants are so vulnerable to collisions with boats and ...

A recent study, published in Papers in Palaeontology, discusses the reanalysis of the only known Idiorophus patagonicus specimen. After a nearly 130-year scientific slumber, the study, titled ...

Humpback whale calves are being born up to 1,500 km further south than previously recognized, including areas near Tasmania and New Zealand, rather than exclusively in tropical breeding grounds.

Each year, humpback whales migrate predictably between cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds and warm, tropical calving grounds, where they give birth and care for their young. Or so scientists thought.