A whale thought to have died three years ago has suddenly reappeared off the coast of Massachusetts. Calvin, a North Atlantic ...

A young humpback whale recently washed up on a Ventura beach, one of several found dead during a severe domoic acid outbreak along the California coast. A team that included the Channel Islands ...

For example, a bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus ... which builds up each year like the rings of a tree—have required whales to be dead. In addition, commercial whaling was so intense throughout ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...