The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some ...

The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...

Two melon-headed whales stranded in December, one on Tybee Island and the other on Sea Island, marking the first documented ...

A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving ...

An orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018 seems to be repeating the behavior with a newly deceased baby whale.

An endangered whale was spotted off Washington carrying her calf’s deceased body over a week after the baby was first ...

Southern resident killer whales face continuing degradation of their habitat by noise, contaminants, and declining quality ...

Boaters in the region are far more likely to encounter “transient” orcas, which prey on other marine mammals, including gray whales. Offshore killer whales, as their ecotype association ...