The largest animal ever recorded is the Blue Whale. Learn its record-breaking size (up to 190 tonnes, 91 ft long) and why it ...

Professor Anurag Agrawal writes about the history and biological context that led to his first time trying whale meat.

PORTLAND, Maine — A man pleaded guilty this week to trafficking whale and bird parts in violation of federal wildlife laws. Sergey Bachkovsky. of Green, Maine, admitted in U.S. District Court that ...

Animal rescuers said they braved rough seas and powerful winds to free a humpback whale entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Australia during what they described as one of the season’s more ...

A 20-foot minke whale died Aug. 2 in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, after being struck by a boat, which nearly capsized and forced a passenger overboard, according to officials. The whale was first spotted ...

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Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to see one of the loudest — and largest — animals on the planet. Passengers aboard a boat got the “privilege” of seeing a blue whale, according to an ...

A minke whale that died after colliding with a small boat Saturday in Barnegat Bay was buried on a beach in Island Beach State Park following a necropsy Monday, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said ...