Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian newspaper.

From mammoth African elephants to giant whales, let's take a look at the 8 largest mammals that inhabit our planet.

A fin popped out of the water followed by a head and ... and they are some of the smallest whales in their family which includes blue whales, according to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation.

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

I talked to two of them, both winners of multiple design awards: Dan Harden of Whipsaw, a San Francisco-based firm that’s ...