The largest animal i the world. Image by NOAA Photo Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Image by prehistoric.dinosaur.hub and interesting on Instagram. The blue whale holds the title of the ...

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s ...

You can take behind-the-scenes tours, get up close and personal with reptiles at the Turtle Experience, and attend talks to widen your knowledge and feedings. Other not-to-be-missed highlights include ...

via Wikimedia Commons The blue whale, the largest animal on Earth, has a heart that weighs as much as a small car. Beating at a rate as low as two times per minute while diving, the whale’s heart ...

And then, some fifty million years ago (about twelve to eighteen million years before hominids diverged from gibbons), whales the size of sheepdogs went back into the water. They chose the deep blue .

Germany has deployed an underwater stealth drone named “Blue Whale” to patrol the Baltic Sea in its latest attempt to confront Russian and Chinese saboteurs. As tensions rise over the cutting of ...

“Underwater drones like the Blue Whale will allow the German navy to take a big step forward in monitoring the Baltic Sea and detecting submarines, without resorting to expensive manned systems ...

A group of scientists saw over 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered in the Gulf of Maine. Here's what we know.

Conservation groups have long argued that tighter ship speed rules are necessary to protect the whales, in part because warm ocean waters appear to be causing the animals to stray from protected ...

NAGS HEAD, N.C. — Nature put on a spectacular show at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head Tuesday morning, with humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins spotted swimming near the pier’s end.

Grief has long thought to be a human trait, but other animals – from killer whales to crows – also appear to suffer loss when a companion dies. Last week, a female killer whale was spotted off ...