Marine biologist and blogger WhySharksMatter prese...  ...in this ethical debate that North Atlantic Right Whales , one of the most endangered animals on Earth, are...  ...need to debate them any further). * Right whales are a unique and interesting animal. They, like u...

Meet the Ophryotrocha craigsmithi, a newly discove...  ...overed species of bristleworm that eats only dead whale bones. But there's a plus side to eating a carcas...  ...ating a carcass of an animal that large: a single whale can provide food for 20 years, to be eaten by gen...  ...aters like hagfish and sharks...

Whaling was a profitable industry throughout the...  ...ut the second half of the 19th century. One sperm whale could net a ship up to three tons of spermaceti,...  ...uld net a ship up to three tons of spermaceti, or whale oil, which was used for lamp oil and in many othe...  ...or lamp oil and in many other pr...

The New York Times looks at the history of human- whale interaction, from whale hunting to the modern effects of sonar on the cet...  ...he lagoons of Baja California, Mexico, where gray whales give birth. The mother whales seek out human co...

Why do whales beach themselves? A new study may have answered t...  ...offers evidence to support the theory that beaked whales get the bends when they surface rapidly, possibly...  ...eport could help scientists understand why beaked whales appear to be more vulnerable to the p...

A 40-foot finback whale that washed up on Herring Cove Beach in Provincet...  ...tic swollen tongue! What really stands out is the whale 's swollen tongue, which looks like a giant balloo...

While cutting through some Egyptian limestone rece...  ...masons in Italy made an interesting discovery. A whale fossil! They called in experts who confirmed this...  ...erts who confirmed this was a 40 million year old whale . Then the fun really began. Well, fun for the arc...  ...TED AN ALMOST PERFECT CROSS S...

47 million years ago, whales that looked like this gave birth on land, accordi...  ...this week that analyzes the fossil of a pregnant whale found in the Pakistani desert. This type of anci...  ...the Pakistani desert. This type of ancient proto- whale was amphibious. When...