New York City onlookers were surprised on Monday when a whale was spotted swimming under the Williamsburg Bridge on Monday, ...

"A blue whale's blowhole is so large that a baby could fit inside it. Like you and me ...

The carcass of the juvenile female fin whale, measuring almost 47 feet, was found Saturday night along the Tony Knowles ...

In the first hearing test of live baleen whales, the animals detected much higher frequency sounds than expected, forcing ...

An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska's largest city has attracted curious onlookers while ...

NOAA biologists are trying to determine how the whale died, while onlookers have gathered to see the large carcass.

Just as doctors might do to patients in a hospital, Arnold Leonard once used specially fitted plastic tubing to administer oxygen to a beluga whale. In the summer of 1986, Leonard and others adopted ...

These baleen whales can be recognised easily by their strongly arched mouth, lack of dorsal fin and V-shaped blowhole spray. Their head and lower jaw is covered with callosities; large, white, rough ...