North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered. Now, they're unexpectedly showing up in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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.

Dolphins Can 'See' Underwater By Using 'Echolocation' Technique, Scientists Find A team of researchers has managed to delve ...

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

The baleen came from a North Atlantic right whale nicknamed Stumpy who died in 2004 after colliding with a ship – a common cause of death among right whales. When scientists necropsied her corpse, ...

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, ...

A massive killer whale swam deep into Yaquina Bay, hunting alone and stunning onlookers. Here's what we know about T049C — and why he's so well known.

Entangled juvenile humpback whale rescued by conservation officials and local anglers off the coast of New Zealand, photos show. ‘Precious species’ ...

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.

Previous research underestimated baleen whale consumption by three times or more in certain ecosystems. Industrial whaling is believed to have removed 80% of whales in the Southern Ocean in just 60 ...

North Atlantic right whale Juno and her calf are shown swimming off Cane Island, South Carolina, on Nov. 28, 2023. (Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, taken under NOAA permit #26919.

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: ...