Baleen whales don’t have teeth. Instead, they use baleen, a filtering system that lets the largest animals on Earth feed on ...

Picture an animal whose tongue will weigh as much as an entire elephant. Sounds like an exciting joke, but not for the blue ...

Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging ...

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 ...

Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...

Photographers capture mutant crayfish, cleaning fish, and synchronized whales in this year's top underwater contests.

IT’S on your left,” I hear someone say, muffled through the water. I spin round and barely a foot away is a beautiful ...

Nature’s most impressive conversations happen at frequencies we cannot hear. While humans perceive sounds between 20 and ...

The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

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

Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ...