Whale song is more similar to human language ... This had not previously been found in any other non-human animal. Professor Simon Kirby, from the University of Edinburgh, said: “These findings ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted splashing in waters off of New York City last week — ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach, prompting an outpouring of grief ...

A rare dwarf sperm whale mysteriously washed ashore in Australia, prompting an official investigation, according to news reports. Beachgoers in Adelaide — a city on the coast of South Australia — ...

One of the most unique about whales is that they're the largest animals to ever exist on Earth — even bigger than the largest ...

A mother whale and her calif were spotted close to the busy shipping lanes at the entrance to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. There are only about 370 right whales left, including ...

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...

And finally, she revealed that cruise ships have been known to hit whales: “I was on a ship cruising through Alaska when we struck a whale - a collision that left the whale draped over the ship ...