Researchers say they see "positive news" in the latest population estimate for North Atlantic right whales, but stress that ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists ...

Humpback whales are increasingly showing up in New York's waters, a sign of a population rebounding after centuries of being ...

Estimated annual births for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale outnumbered deaths for the fourth year in a ...

The most recent census of the fish-eating orcas that frequent Puget Sound revealed two new whales in J pod, while K pod ...

Whale researchers say that an endangered southern resident killer whale was found pushing a deceased calf in the Rosario ...

Australian scientists have noticed a rise in the number of whales getting entangled in ropes and fishing lines. Rescuing them ...

Photos of the calf taken by whale-watching operators on Oct. 16 and then again after the Hullo ferry strike on Oct. 20 ...

A Southern Resident killer whale has been spotted clinging to her dead baby in the Salish Sea off northern Washington, a conservation group said. J-36, also known as Alki, was seen Sept. 12 in the ...

Drone footage shot by a research team off the coast of Western Australia captured a rare, white baby whale cuddling with its mother. Marine scientists with Murdoch University were studying the ...

Researchers believe a humpback whale calf named “Skipper” is the one that was struck by a Hullo ferry over the weekend.

Whale sharks are the gentle giants of the seas, but even they are not spared from harm at the hands of humans: nearly 77% of the whale sharks studied in a world-renowned marine tourism area off the ...