Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean, ...

Despite their underwater habitat, whales are mammals. Mammals are not solely terrestrial; some, including whales and dolphins, are fully aquatic the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology reports.

Scientists confirmed the first east-to-west Atlantic migration of a North Atlantic right whale, traveling 3,000 miles from ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

Living in the icy waters of the frigid Arctic, bowhead whales are some of the most extreme mammals on Earth, and they have ...

Members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians salvaged a beached whale’s remains, a practice that hadn't been ...

It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of ...

Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to understand sperm whale vocalizations. Lawyers think the discoveries may result in stronger protections for nonhuman life.

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