If all goes as planned, the skeleton — after help from scientists and specialists from around the world — will be fully reassembled in May outside the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This video will give you goosebumps: the largest animal on the planet gracefully steaming straight toward a whale-watching boat.

Once upon a time, the blue whale’s call was the ocean’s version of surround sound. Imagine a haunting, bass-heavy symphony echoing across entire ocean basins (one you probably wouldn’t just hear, but ...

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 ...

Scientists have been left seriously concerned after thousands of blue whales "went quiet" in the ocean. Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California have found ...

The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains dolphins, porpoises, and whales), but one surpasses them all. Meet the ...

A resident population of blue whales has for many years lived in the coastal waters of Sri Lanka, but in recent years sightings of the animals have declined rapidly. With multiple pressures on these ...

A blue whale mother and calf are swimming together in the Gulf of California in Baja, Mexico, one of the warm-water places blue whales spend their winter months. Only two blue whale births have ever ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catoosa will start building a new visitors center at the Blue Whale during the first week of August. Interim City Manager Josh ...

Footage from the BBC's new nature series "Parenthood" shows orcas practicing an important blue whale-hunting technique on each other. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...