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

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 ...

Fin, humpback, and minke whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence are eating more fish and less krill than they did in the past, scientists say ...

As a result of more whales washing up dead, NOAA declared an “unusual mortality event” in California in 2019. Between 2019 ...

The once-booming population that passed California twice a year has cratered because of retreating sea ice. A new kind of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Fossil records make one evolutionary pattern especially ...

The death of a whale found on the bow of a container ship at a port along the Delaware River in southern New Jersey is under investigation ...

Authorities have launched an investigation after a dead whale was found on the bow of a ship coming to port at a marine terminal in New Jersey over the weekend. The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Delaware ...

Far off the New England coast, one of Earth’s rarest mammals is surviving on a food source so small it usually slips past ...

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

Watching a massive whale breach the surface of the ocean is a moment that stays with you forever, but you do not necessarily need a boat ticket to experience it. While marine tours are popular, they ...

Discover why safeguarding Arctic migration routes is vital for whales facing threats from shipping, noise, and climate change ...