Wellington - The carcass of a rare blue whale washed ashore in southern New Zealand after it apparently died of old age, a marine expert said Thursday. The body - with bite wounds and its tail chewed ...

Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. Taken by Eric Guth under NMFS permit ...

After largely recovering from decades of overhunting, one of the most iconic whale species may be at risk from climate change, as warming waters could force it away from its traditional breeding ...

Attentive readers will recall Christopher Dionne’s suggestion that the scale of large datasets could be conveyed by comparing them to the genome of the blue whale (12 April). Bruce Horton writes ...

They can ingest large quantities of food quickly and efficiently. Baleen whales, such as humpbacks and blue whales (the biggest creature to have ever lived on earth) communicate through a series of ...

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 ...