In a surprising discovery, a new study reveals that among seven species of baleen whales, only the humpback is capable of the ...

Finalists in the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 competition capture beautiful images of animals and people oceans.

J. dullardi is only the fourth mammalodontid to have been discovered worldwide, and the third discovered in the Jan Juc ...

A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium became the first known beluga whale to recover from general anesthesia after a ...

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach.

The whale shark — a shark, not a whale — is the largest fish in the world, roughly the length of a city bus. Whale sharks ...

Paleontologists have identified a new whale species from a 25-million-year-old fossil found on an Australian beach ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Prehistoric fossils have led to the discovery of an ancient whale species off the coast of Australia.

Found on the southern coast of Australia, the species could fill gaps in scientists' understanding of baleen whale evolution ...