Just before dawn, under a bruised Arctic sky, gulls screamed over the freezing waters of a Norwegian fjord. Below them, a ...

The man noticed the whale had already been sliced open and so decided to jump in, possibly owing to the fact he had been drinking. He stayed within the decaying blubber for more than two hours and ...

A whale found near Bold Point Park in upper Narragansett Bay has been dead for four months, its carcass having originally ...

A sperm whale beached in Beaufort County, SC over the weekend was euthanized by officials overnight Sunday. Crews worked May ...

Gray whale strandings, which occur during the spring months when whales migrate past the Washington coast, are happening at a ...

All of this excess energy is stored as fat in their thick layer of blubber to sustain them through the winter. During the winter, baleen whales spend between six and eight months travelling to the ...

Learn more about the recent discovery of this spade-toothed whale and what an international research team uncovered about it.

The long saga of the 48-foot whale that washed up on the shores of Cook Inlet in November continued this week.

Thousands of gray whales are migrating past the Oregon coast in poor condition, with record-low calf numbers and visible signs of starvation. Researchers link the crisis to changing Arctic feeding ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

On Friday, scientists took a skin and blubber sample from that whale, and determined that it was an adult female. Cal Academy and East Bay Regional Parks arranged to have the dead gray whale towed ...