Whales are mighty. Blue whales, for example, aren’t only the largest animal on Earth, but as far as we know, they’re the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Read on to discover the 12-inch-thick throat muscles and a 90-second gulp that power its baleen-filter feeding. The biggest whale ...

Ancient whale-bone harpoons found in Brazil reveal Indigenous whale hunting 5,000 years ago, long before the use of metal ...

The largest animal that has ever lived is not a dinosaur from Yore but a living mammal that still crosses our oceans. The ...

How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone?

Authorities have launched an investigation after a dead whale was found on the bow of a ship coming to port at a marine ...

The whale shark always presents a subtle irony. It's the largest fish in the world, reaching tens of meters in length, yet ...

After nearly two decades, Callosity Back returned to Florida waters as a mother with her calf, joining an unusually high number of newborns this season for the critically endangered North Atlantic ...

Standing between two racks of whale bones in the National Museum Collection Centre in Granton, Professor Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator ...

There are only 370 right whales left. If human activity doesn't change, the population may not be large enough to continue to reproduce by 2035.

After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

Sometimes safety becomes unsafe when it's carried too far. A new study by Lloyds Register reveals that ships, especially ...