Whales

Scientists are turning to high-flying help in efforts to count humpback whales.

Whales, dolphins and porpoises end up stranded on beaches and no one knows why.

Humpback whales engage in a behavior called mugging in new aerial footage.

A humpback whale that stranded on a sandbar in Long Island's Moriches Bay on Nov. 20 was euthanized on Wednesday (Nov. 23), after attempts to move the animal into deeper waters were unsuccessful.

The enormous blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History is clean as a whistle following its annual vacuuming.

How does the American Museum of Natural History wash a 21,000-pound fiberglass blue whale? Watch on Live Science today to find out!

Fisherman spots mysterious giant blob that turns out to be a common sea creature.

Marine biologists report observations of humpback whales acting as unlikely marine vigilantes, ganging up on killer whales when they attack other species.

The discovery of a new species of rare and elusive whale in the North Pacific shows how little humans know about the deep and vast ocean, researchers say.

A brown bear in southeastern Alaska was dwarfed by its unusual and enormous meal — a beached sperm whale carcass.

On May 20, tourists on an Australian cruise witnessed an incredible, albeit somewhat gruesome, sight.

A dead whale that washed up on a southern Australia beach has something peculiar in its mouth: a sharp and pointy fang, say the researchers who examined it.

To save the whales, and dolphins, one place to start is Tanzania.

A suspected "sea monster" that washed ashore in Mexico is likely just a portion of a sperm whale's head.

Before baleen whales developed their iconic comblike filter-feeding structures, they relied on their pointy teeth and a suctioning method to nab and gulp down prey, a new study finds.