Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

The calf, Opus, was born to beluga whale Naya in July. The name means a musical composition or set of compositions usually ...

The storied group has a remarkable history of daring protests and high-profile blunders. It faces a reckoning in North Dakota ...

Blue whales are massive even at birth. When they are born, they measure about 25 feet (7.6 m) long. These gigantic babies drink over 100 gallons (379 liters) of their mother's milk every 24 hours ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

The next day, the same pod were seen at Duke Point in Nanaimo.

A new study by Trevor Branch, a professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, suggests a hypothesis to explain why ...

Boaters and paddlers are advised to stay at least 500 yards from the whales. Sunday's sighting of a mother-calf pair off Ormond Beach brings the total number of calves born during this winter's ...

Blue whales migrate during summer to feed in colder regions where krill is plentiful, like in the waters off California. They ...

Typically, some gray whales are born on the way south, she said. Last year, the decades-old Point Vicente count reported two dozen calves headed down the coast. “This is our first year we have ...

He proposes that one in particular is the best explanation: It's mostly because researchers prefer summertime research on feeding congregations of blue whales, but calves are born in fall and ...