Whales

A fin whale with a deformed spine was recently spotted struggling to swim off the coast of Spain. Its back was likely broken during a vessel strike, experts say.

An orca killing spree continues in South Africa. Their target: shark livers.

Researchers have recorded an orca swimming with a pilot whale calf in a possible interspecies adoption, but how the two came together is a mystery.

Cruise ship passengers near Antarctica witnessed the massive group, which mainly consisted of fin whales, feeding on an overabundance of krill in 2022.

Scientists in Australia think that a sea monster in 13th-century Norse manuscripts was actually an accurate description of a whale using trap feeding.

A lucky group of whale watchers recently watched a gray whale calf being birthed off the coast of California. It could be the first time that this incredible phenomenon has ever been caught on camera.

A dog-walker recently stumbled across a bizarre, white "fleshy lump" on a beach in Cornwall, England. Experts think that the unusual object is actually part of a whale's stomach.

Researchers estimate that blue whales may each consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day during their main feeding season as they chow down on plastic-filled prey.

An adult southern right whale was recently spotted swimming alongside a humpback whale calf. Experts think the larger whale may have adopted the juvenile after it lost its real mother.

A group of more than 100 international researchers has signed an open letter to the Biden administration calling for urgent action to save Rice's whale from extinction.

Whale watchers in British Columbia recently witnessed an intense showdown between a group of 15 transient killer whales and a pair of female humpback whales in the Salish Sea.

Two mass strandings have occurred in the same region of Tasmania.

A megalodon tooth found suspiciously close to two fractured whale vertebrae may reflect one small whale's heroic escape from the jaws of a giant prehistoric shark.

Orcas are snapping the rudders off boats near Europe, and it may be a cetacean fad.

A dead white humpback whale was recently found on a remote beach in Australia. However, experts say the animal is not an albino.

In celebration of Arctic Sea Ice Day (July 15), viewers can tune in to watch beluga whales frolic in Hudson Bay by the thousands.

New analysis of fossil skulls from sperm whales that lived millions of years ago shows that numerous species of ancient sharks preyed on the whales … and ate their faces.

A dead beaked whale with mysterious injuries on its face recently washed up on a California beach. Experts are unsure why the animal died or even which species it belongs to.

There were potentially even more sharks in the swarm.

Local authorities suggest the young humpback did it on purpose.