Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

A pair of rare and critically endangered whales has journeyed past their usual course, appearing in the Gulf Coast where they ...

The clip shows a group of seven orcas — four adults and three calves — as they circle a seal on a tiny chunk of ice in western Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay. The lesson, which ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

The animal’s dorsal fin was still floppy, indicating it was less than 24 hours old, according to news reports.

You can see the joyfulness in them, so the fact that these animals are struggling for reasons really associated with actions ...

Fans are stopping by to watch the artist work on the mural, originally done in 1981 and the first of what would become 103 in ...

This process uncovered the DNA of two animals: orcas, also known as killer whales, and broadnose sevengill sharks. Orca DNA was linked to the largest bite wound, found in the center of the shark, ...