In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, ...

The sighting of Eternity beyond Canada’s 200-mile limit was an exciting observation for Dr. Jack Lawson, a DFO research ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

Baleen whales don't have teeth, but they and dolphins share a common ancestor, ... Ascending auditory pathways in a sei whale brain—blue is left, orange is right. Credit: ...

Scientists mapped dolphin and whale brains to uncover how echolocation works, revealing they may use sound more like touch ...

The DOC is reminding people of the need for permits for possession of protected marine mammal parts after a buyer purchased ...

Baleen whales don’t have teeth, but they and dolphins share a common ancestor, and both rely on complex vocal communication in a dark underwater environment. While dolphins have evolved ...

More than 6,300 pounds of Burmese python were tracked and removed by the team, which has removed more than 40,000 pounds of ...

Bones from sperm whales were the most abundant, followed by fin whales, gray whales, right or bowhead whales – two species ... And the rest of the whale would also certainly have been used – teeth or ...

There are estimated to be about 2,000-3,500 southern right whales in the Australian population, but that is a long way off the estimated pre-whaling numbers of 70,000-160,000.