A bill in the works has support from Maine fishermen and lobbyists for big-money species such as tuna in Hawaiʻi and crab in ...

Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.'s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with ...

Hitan, also called Whale Valley, over 400 fossilized whale skeletons lie preserved in the Sahara’s sand. These 37-million-year-old remains show how whales evolved from land mammals into ocean dwellers ...

PENÍNSULA VALDÉS, Argentina -- PENÍNSULA VALDÉS, Argentina (AP) — After coming back from the brink of extinction, Southern ...

Most people are lucky to simply get a glimpse of some fragment of a whale. A subtle puff of mist over the horizon, the curve ...

Whales are the giants of the ocean. These amazing creatures live in seas and oceans all around the world. Some travel ...

Right whales, from the family Balaenidae, include four living species of endangered whale that can reach more than 60 feet long and have existed for about 20 million years. Small right whale ancestors ...

The “mighty” new prehistoric whale species was about 40 feet long based on the fossilized bones. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

More than 60 miles off the coast of Baja, California, the crew of the Pacific Storm hauled an underwater microphone behind their boat while scanning the horizon with binoculars for signs of life. For ...