Omura's whale has eluded researchers since its discovery, and even basic behaviors like feeding have remained a mystery. A ...

A 5-foot-long whale shark found in Indonesia may have given scientists one of their best clues yet about where these enormous ...

Michael Packard is perhaps the only person in recorded history who can weigh in with any real authority on the new film ...

A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales experience grief.

There’s been a new development as authorities tried desperately to save the life of a sperm whale found stranded on a ...

The remarkable diversity of killer whale ecotypes (Orcinus orca) and beaked whales in the Family Ziphiidae is challenging to document, yet central to our understanding of their ecology, evolution, and ...

Whalefall is a movie about trying to get out from inside a whale doing its best to digest you, and also a heartfelt movie ...

Brolin, Austin Abrams, director Brian Duffield, and author/screenwriter Daniel Krause talk to Polygon about the new release ...

Foskolos: What we call whale fall is just the remains of a dead whale along the sea bottom, which creates entire ecosystems, ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source. As far as deep-sea ...

A second dead whale has washed up on a Perth beach, again prompting beach closures amid fears of increased shark activity in the area.