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 ...

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

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

President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited the impact ...

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 ...

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

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

Computer models helped decode whale communication. But some scientists say there are barriers that cannot be overcome.

As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there’s no ...