The long saga of the 48-foot whale that washed up on the shores of Cook Inlet in November continued this week.

After a surge of spring storms, Mr. Jacobs descended into freezing blackness for the third time in late February. Gripping ...

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.

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 ...

In December 2024, Iceland’s government granted Hvalur hf., run by billionaire Kristján Loftsson, a five-year license to hunt 209 fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) each year between 2025 and 2029.

Despite oceans covering over 70% of Earth’s surface, we have mapped less than ... Image by Venti Views via Unsplash. Whale vocalizations, particularly those of baleen whales like blue, fin, and ...

For the first time since whaling was banned, dozens of southern fin whales have been filmed feasting together in a "thrilling" Antarctic spectacle, hailed by scientists on July 7 as a sign of hope ...

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 ...