The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains dolphins, porpoises, and whales), but one surpasses them all. Meet the ...

We round up five destinations where sightings of cetacean life are almost guaranteed in the spring and summer months, from ...

Photo of a large blue whale with bright light on a black background. Insulation.© ARomadov/Shutterstock.com Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked together ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Only two births of a blue whale have ever been recorded. Mother and calf pairs are also sighted much more rarely than might be expected. The reason, new research suggests, has to do with where and ...

An early season blue whale sighting has ocean watchers hopeful there will be more of the world’s largest animal showing up off the local coast. The sighting on Tuesday was about 3 miles off the Dana ...