Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

Scientists at the New England Aquarium announced Monday the names of 20 North Atlantic right whales. Every right whale in the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog has a number assigned to it ...

Right whales are the rarest of all large whales. There are several species, but all are identified by enormous heads, which can measure up to one-third of their total body length. These whales ...

A humpback whale and her calf are two of thousands of whales who create a newly discovered "conveyor belt," carrying huge quantities of critical nutrients from high latitudes to the tropics. (Credit: ...

A pair of endangered North Atlantic right whales have finally been spotted again off Florida's west coast, and the good news is the right whales appear to be headed back to the right ocean.