For about six years, however, the population has failed to rebound as it did during previous die-offs. Scientists attribute ...

An oddly shaped deep-sea fish recently washed up on an Oregon beach, catching the attention of a local aquarium. The Seaside Aquarium identified the fish as a longnose lancetfish.

It seemed his dream of recovering a complete skeleton from the 48-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November might be slipping away with the tide. With permission from federal ...

Fin whales are the second-largest whale species on the planet and have a “distinctive coloration – black or dark brownish-gray on the back and sides and white on the underside,” according to the ...

Endangered North Atlantic right whales returned north from Georgia and Florida with only 11 confirmed new calves, the fewest since 2020, according to estimates.

Photographer Noriyuki Hayakawa captured rare footage of a white killer whale off Japan’s Hokkaido island, part of a small ...

As offshore wind turbines rise from the waters off the Northeast coast, so do questions about their impact beneath the ...

On a wave-battered rock in the northern Pacific Ocean, a fish called the sculpin grips the surface firmly to maintain ...

The state Division of Marine Fisheries and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have teamed up to launch an innovative ...

The state Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have teamed up to improve North Atlantic right whale monitoring ... them to the surface, and ...

Iceland’s largest commercial whaling company, Hvalur hf., has said it will not hunt any fin whales in the summer of 2025. Hvalur hf. exports almost all of its whale meat to Japan. However Loftss ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Port Arthur man and his friends reeled in their 'white whale' last week ... of tuna schooling began to break through the surface of the otherwise placid waters.