Marine biologist Carrie Newell photographed four blue whales — the largest animals on Earth — 3 miles off Depoe Bay.

From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the first blue whale of the season, these events have stunned onlookers and ...

A pair of orcas recently made waves when they were spotted in an unusual location off the United Kingdom. The apex predators ...

These images, by The Sydney Morning Herald photo editor Danielle Smith, capture the “creme de la creme” of humpback whale ...

A white whale calf swimming with its mother off Australia created a memorable moment, while a pod of rare Baird’s beaked ...

“Considered to be the most famous humpback whale in the world, Migaloo may be the only pure white adult humpback whale alive ...

A humpback whale has been spotted mid-birth in an extremely rare sighting off Queensland’s Gold Coast. A Sea World ...

Originally from Yallingup, in the southwest of Western Australia, Tris has run her business from the Pacific Island nation ...

In the warm, cobalt waters just off the coast of Dominica —a mountainous Caribbean island often called the "Nature Island"—a ...

The rare and awe-inspiring gestures were documented off the coasts of B.C., California, New Zealand and Norway. Researchers ...

A rare sperm whale tooth from the Copper Age Valencina site in Spain, dating to 5,300–4,150 years ago, shows evidence of marine bioerosion and deliberate human modification.