Why is Whale Wars's sixth season, premiering on Friday, not a full season but a two-hour special? The answer lies in an injunction handed down against Sea Shepherd, the nonprofit, anti-whaling ...

Researchers at CSIRO, Australias national science agency, peering into the whales genetic code, now believe bowheads could ...

He's been in trouble with governments on at least three continents and is the star of Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars.” The show chronicles Watson’s group, the Sea Shepherd Conservation ...

The reality-TV series, which returns Dec. 13 on Animal Planet with a two-hour installment, “Whale Wars: A Commander Rises,” has been controversial TV entertainment in several ways. The “star ...

But at a busy restaurant in downtown Los Angeles this spring, the 59-year-old at the center of “Whale Wars” was being confronted by his new identity as a celebrity. After being seated ...

Animal Planet is eager to expand its brand into an edgier orbit, and “Whale Wars” certainly fits the bill. Accompanying the crew of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on their crusade to ...

"I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV,'" he says with a grin. The Whale Wars star and 35-year leader of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is known for heading into the ...

NEW YORK – “Whale Wars” seems to be sinking into a legal battle. According to TMZ, a new lawsuit claims Paul Watson, star of the Animal Planet series, lied about the fate of his ship ...

Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars” has been renewed for a fifth season after months of back-and-forth over whether the show’s protags, a militant animal-rights group called the Sea Shepherds ...

who is known for the reality series “Whale Wars.” A teacher at Chris’s school is aghast: “Telling a 16-year-old from rural Alaska — where the suicide rates are higher than any other part ...