I grew up visiting the American Museum of Natural History regularly, and a recent visit convinced me that it's still the best museum in New York.

Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

A gang of more than 60 orcas brutally attacked and killed a 59-foot-long (18 meters) pygmy blue whale, leaving a nearby whalewatching tour shocked, new video footage shows. The dramatic incident ...

Canary Wharf has a huge new addition: a sculpture of a blue whale leaping from the dock in Wood Wharf. The artwork, Whale on the Wharf (Skyscraper), is made of plastic found on Hawaiian beaches ...

People on a whale watching expedition were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime experience on Sunday, April 6, as a humpback whale rose out of the water within feet of their boat. The curious whale, ...

Blue Prince is an exploding riddle with a delayed fuse, and it blew me away. Blue Prince is a roguelike first-person head-scratcher from developer Dogubomb. It’s like if Myst and Everybody’s ...

A whale has died after becoming stranded near a Scots beach. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) were made aware of a sperm whale in Ettrick Bay, on the Isle of Bute, on Tuesday, April 8.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- A rare juvenile minke whale that became stranded in an offshore mudflat in Emeryville on Tuesday had to be humanely euthanized after officials determined the "animal ...

Happily, Dionne has come up with a solution. “Why don’t we use the internationally agreed upon standard of measurement – the blue whale?” The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in length.

A juvenile minke whale stranded multiple times in the San Francisco Bay was euthanized due to its deteriorating health. The whale, rarely seen in the area, exhibited signs of severe sunburn ...