We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

As humans increasingly appear in orcas' marine neighborhoods, the whales could be interested in learning about us: our ...

The apex predators have offered up fish, birds, turtles and whales to humans around the world, according to the study.

In the deep blue waters of the world’s oceans, some of the most intelligent and social creatures on Earth are engaging in ...

Brave rescuers risk their own safety to free animals like humpback whales that become entangled in ropes and other fishing ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been ...

Just one of the whale shark’s fins is nearly 5 feet tall—about the height of an average adult human. While comparing a whale shark’s size to a human is impressive, it’s their weight that ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago ...

The analysis revealed evidence of fin whales, sperm whales, gray whales, blue whales, right whales or bowhead whales, and harbor porpoises. Many of these bone tools were scattered across a 300-mile ...

MIRISSA, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan waters are considered a haven for the largest creatures ever to have lived, the blue whale, a rare place for a resident, year-round population to thrive. In 2021 ...

On Monday, tourists and researchers on a tour boat at Bremer Canyon witnessed a pod of over 60 orcas hunt and kill a roughly 59-foot-long (18-meter-long) pygmy blue whale, as reported by Australia ...

Before Dersch can fully get his bearings, a second humpback whale charges past the diver with its mouth open, narrowly avoiding striking Dersch with its gargantuan maw. As the humpback whale swims ...