Qatar region raises the risk of pollution in one of the most important whale shark aggregation sites on Earth.

The great gray whale migration is back on the Oregon coast. The massive migration of eastern North Pacific gray whales — the longest mammalian migration in the world — sees thousands of whales ...

The humpback whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae) is widely seen as a model success story for wildlife conservation. Prior to the ...

The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains dolphins, porpoises, and whales), but one surpasses them all. Meet the ...

Local whale-watchers have reported what they believe was possibly the largest pod of gray whales seen in Southern California waters in at least three decades. The pod of 23 gray whales was spotted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Read on to discover the 12-inch-thick throat muscles and a 90-second gulp that power its baleen-filter feeding. The biggest whale ...