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

Koala and Curlew, two endangered female North Atlantic right whales have gone off course, perplexing researchers.

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...

A pair of highly endangered whales seen swimming the Gulf this week have Texas experts on high alert. The two adult female ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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 ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

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

The origins of this whale of a tale date back to an article first published in the late 1800s by a Canadian newspaper.