A rare white whale was spotted and filmed by tourists aboard the New Year’s Eve ship during a trip in the Andaman Sea off the coast of Thailand’s province of Phuket. Footage of the encounter was ...

“Not only did we capture such an amazing dataset, but we actually knew each of these whales,” says marine biologist David Gruber, who leads Project CETI, a nonprofit based partly in the Caribbean ...

For the first time, scientists temporarily captured baleen whales and tested their hearing, a controversial step that brings researchers closer to understanding how some of the largest and most ...

Beloved Southern Resident killer whale Tokitae, also called Lolita, was captured from her native waters in Penn Cove more than 50 years ago. For the first time since that traumatic event, her family ...

An unlikely sighting of a blue whale off the coast of Argentina recently delighted conservationists. In the waters of Argentina's southern Chubut Province, conservationists captured rare evidence of a ...

Amber Miller just wanted to get a picture with her friends on a whale watching trip. They lined up along the rail of the Davey’s Locker boat Ocean Explorer. Then, magic happened. A breaching humpback ...

Seeing wild animals in their natural habitat is truly a unique experience, especially when they're spotted doing something unusual. That's exactly what happened when whale watchers were out. The ...

Seattle (AP) — Pictures released by a conservation group show a young humpback whale breaching in front of the Space Needle as it visited the waters off Seattle last week, capturing a rare display of ...

Humpback whales are massive, intelligent, and social creatures residing in all oceans around the globe. These whales can grow up to 60 feet long and weigh up to 80,000 pounds, according to Oceana.