A new study argues that Perucetus, an ancient whale species, was certainly big, but not as big as today’s blue whales.

As the smallest of the group of baleen whales that includes the blue whale - filter-feeding behemoths of the marine realm - the Antarctic minke whale aptly can be called the littlest giant. It ...

Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan to die out ...

In a baffling show of generosity, killer whales across the globe are giving fish to humans—and scientists are racing to ...

A study by MBARI researchers and their collaborators published today in Ecology Letters sheds new light on the movements of mysterious, endangered blue whales. The research team used a directional ...

AUDIENCES can step inside a giant whale this weekend as Basingstoke Festival with a full programme of free outdoor ...

With only about 50 left, a newly discovered whale in the Gulf of Mexico has led to a big legal battle between the oil industry and the Biden administration.

The submarine-size ocean creatures were not always behemoths. Now, a new study has found that the secret to a whale’s size may be in its genes.

Fossils from Peru suggest a giant whale that lived roughly 39 million years ago may have been at least as massive as the blue whale.

Are Whales Trying to Tell Us Something? Project CETI, an interdisciplinary initiative consisting of over 50 scientists, is working to uncover — and eventually decode — patterns in whale ...

Tracking blue whales by their booming vocalizations, researchers have revealed how these ocean giants find dense aggregations of food.