In 2021, researchers identified a new whale species and are now scrambling to save their natural habitat By Danna Staaf This adult Rice's whale skull at the National Museum of Natural History is the ...

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge ...

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In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of whale remains. This site differs from previously described ...

Chinese scientists have discovered the largest whale “graveyard” ever found. It contains nearly 500 whale skeletons all collected by chance and spreads across 750 miles of seafloor and five million ...

A dead juvenile humpback whale found near Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove is being studied by UCSC researchers, while locals and tourists gather to witness the rare sight. A dead juvenile ...

The nine-metre southern right whale, or tohorā in Māori, is the first of the species to have been recorded entangled in New Zealand waters A whale that became entangled in fishing gear and was ...

BREMERTON, Wash. — Gray whale deaths continue to climb along Washington’s coast and in the Puget Sound, with researchers now documenting 22 strandings statewide this year as concerns grow over ...

Since March, the world has watched live as a humpback whale lay stranded on a sandbank in German waters, far from the North Sea. The stranded humpback whale was found in poor health, tangled in ...

BERLIN — A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort, after repeatedly becoming ...

A fin whale stranded on a Samish Island beach near Bellingham died Tuesday morning, bringing Washington state’s whale death toll to 18 so far this year, researchers said. The male is the first fin ...

A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said. Nicknamed Timmy by German media, ...