A humpback whale spyhops Monday morning in front of a kayaker less than a half mile offshore from the mouth of the San ...

The Marshfield Police Department’s harbormaster patrolled the waters nearby. Dozens of endangered North Atlantic Right whales were seen feeding off the coast of Massachusetts over the past few days.

Researchers have identified ginkgo-toothed beaked whales alive at sea for the first time after years of searching, and in ...

Researchers have captured the acrobatics of gray whales as they feed. New insight into their movements observed them doing headstands and using “bubble blasts” to catch food. Oregon State University’s ...

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales — species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, ...

Right whales, still recovering from intensive whale hunting, have added a few more individuals to their small population.

Minke whales are the smallest of the rorqual group of baleen whales, which use a “lunge feeding” strategy to capture large amounts of small prey such as krill. Credit: Duke Marine Robotics and Remote ...

Whale watching charter owners said they couldn’t remember a time over the last decade when blue whales, the earth’s largest mammals, showed up this late off Southern California. In recent years, their ...

A young humpback whale stranded on the shore near Yachats, which captured the attention of many in Oregon and across the ...

Fishing crews across a broad expanse of the world’s oceans, ranging from the South Atlantic to the North Pacific, report ...