Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species in shallow waters, as whales swim up from the deep sea, where they feed, ...

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed ... These whales use their baleen plates to filter tiny animals — ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency this year added fin whales to its list of three whale species that can be legally hunted as the country expands commercial whaling along its coast. Japan resumed ...

File photo of a blue whale off the coast of Bandon, Oregon. An analysis from the University of Washington finds that blue and ...

New video shows a dead whale that washed ashore in Delaware. Drone pilot RITTER Dragonfly Dronography released a video of the dead whale just north of the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the Delaware ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ... krill and small fish — out of the water. Examples of baleen whales include blue whales, fin whales and humpback whales. Toothed whales usually ...

Eavesdropping on baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean ... In contrast, blue and fin whale song rose primarily during the years of increasing krill abundance. This distinction of humpback ...

BDMLR said the rope was wrapped around the whale's head and left fin. The fossil was first spotted in the 1970s but only in recent times was it possible to extract and study it.

British Overseas Territories South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands have issued a series of coloured titanium coins highlighting the fin whale. The coins are produced y Pobjoy Mint.