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 ...

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 ...

The endangered whales face multiple threats, from a lack of their primary food, chinook salmon, to underwater noise from vessels that makes it harder to hunt, as well as pollution and inbreeding.

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 ...

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 ...

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