The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

Whale sharks use both natural and artificial underwater features, such as seamounts and oil platforms, as stepping stones in ...

Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater features such as seamounts and canyons as well as artificial features like ...

The proposed changes, which they argued could hurt the fishing and boating industries and other related businesses.

Stay 500 yards away, about the length of five football fields. This regulation applies to vessels, aircraft, drones and ...

Mother orca 'appeared to be trying to keep it (calf) from sinking' off Canada's Vancouver Island, says Center for Whale ...

A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago was spotted recently in waters off Victoria, B.C., still ...

Weather reports made by mariners more than two hundred years ago may have relevance for research into climate change today. Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century.

A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass ...

Only a handful of days old, the female calf was confirmed dead on New Year's Eve. The next day, the southern resident orca ...

Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales. The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are ...