There are many whales. Six species of baleen whales feed in the coastal waters of the Gulf of Alaska. Each spring, grey, ...

Right whales, still recovering from intensive whale hunting, have added a few more individuals to their small population.

Among all of Earth's massive marine ecosystem, the one creature that elicits both awe and fear is the whale. While there are as many as 90 whale species across the world's oceans, biologists and ...

Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...

For years, scientists feared the North Atlantic right whale was headed for extinction. Now there’s finally a sliver of good [ ...