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

It is still leaking because the blue whale’s bone marrow is chock full of oil and much more oily than human bone. “The marrow is oily and the oil is a source of energy for these animals.

We have seen a blue whale give birth twice – once in 1911 and once in 1946, but out of all the blue whale sightings around the world, only a little over 3% of them include a mother and her calf.

A whale that beached itself on Hilton Head Island on May 4 has been euthanized, local officials announced. The whale, which officials have identified as a juvenile sperm whale, was sedated and ...

The Blue Whale of Catoosa — a beloved roadside attraction on the historic Mother Road — will be immortalized as the finisher medal at this year’s Williams Route 66 Marathon in Tulsa.

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 ...

RFK Jr accused of breaking wildlife laws after report he once sawed off a whale head - ’RFK Jr. cutting off the head of a dead whale was both bizarre and illegal,’ insisted Brett Hartl, the ...

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A blue whale surfaced about 50 miles off the coast of Cape May, New Jersey during an ecological tour led by the Cape May Whale Watch & Research Center earlier in September. The endangered species ...

Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf pairs are also sighted much more rarely than might be expected. The reason, new research suggests, has to do with where and ...

Those who have stopped by the New Bedford Whaling Museum have more than likely marveled over the 60-foot whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling.