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

The bodies of two male melon-headed whales were found 50 miles apart along the southeastern coast of the United States.

A deceased pygmy sperm whale calf was found washed up on the beach just east of South Beach Road in Buxton on Tuesday morning ...

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

Courtship and procreative behavior in many species of elasmobranchs—cartilaginous fish including rays, sawfish, sharks, and skates—may include following and biting. However, there has been little ...

Tahlequah, the Southern Resident orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is mourning the loss of another newborn, ...

Risso’s dolphins are closely related to pilot whales, pygmy killer whales, melon-headed whales, and false killer whales.

Dave Phillips, a scientist that helped to rewild Keiko, the orca who starred in "Free Willy," is working to help two other ...

Tahlequah first garnered worldwide recognition in 2018 when the killer whale carried her dead calf on the back for 17 days.

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some bowhead whales live for over 200 years. That's older than many countries' ...

The Whale Interpretive Centre, where visitors could walk underneath huge whale skeletons suspended from the ceiling, was a ...

Tahlequah, the orca whale who carried her dead newborn 1,000 miles, recently gave birth to another calf. This birth marks J35's second calf since she made headlines in 2018. The Center for Whale ...