Whales travel through the ocean, lunging, leaping, and playing, with grace and swiftness that belie their huge size. The ...

Many animals that live in water need to come up to the surface to breathe, but they can still spend impressive lengths of ...

The Canary Islands saw multiple beaked whales strandings between 2002 and 2004. In 2004, Spain banned sonar use around the Canary Islands. There have been no strandings since the ban.

Six beaked whales have washed ashore since 2007, in varying states of health, according to records from the Guam Department of Agriculture, Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources.

How long whales can hold their breath underwater depends on the species: minke whales can last for around 15 minutes, sperm whales for up to 90 minutes and Cuvier's beaked whales for over two ...

A humpback whale that is missing its tail and was spotted in Washington state’s inland waters likely lost its iconic flukes after becoming entangled, possibly in some kind of line or fishing ...

Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and safeguard them from plastic trash, noise pollution and ship strikes.

Lobster fishermen in northern Cape Breton got an up-close glimpse of a pod of killer whales this week, a sighting that a marine biologist says is on the rise.

Dominica’s west coast proved to be a useful base for both whales and researchers over the winters of 2005-2010. From the very first recordings of echolocation clicks from a single whale diving to ...