Anyway, the Oregon whale beach blast was nothing like either of these ends, both of which are normal and natural for a whale.

A ship strike may be to blame for the death of a sperm whale that stranded north of Charleston earlier this year. The ...

The Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network has released the necropsy update of the dead sperm whale that was found in North Charleston in Feburary.In February, our t ...

The true life events that inspired Melville’s Moby Dick is a tale of horror greater than any novel could describe.  In the 1800s, an entire industry was ...

Marine biologist Ben Fitzpatrick, director of Oceanwise Australia, swears an octopus he once encountered stole a gold Rolex ...

Tuesday marked 54 years since a dead whale was infamously blown up on a beach, showering bystanders and cars with whale bits.

As research over the past several decades has shown, whales play a critical role in bolstering ocean ecosystems. Many whale species feed in the depths of the ocean where prey is plentiful, but where ...

In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million whales—a whopping 99 percent of the world’s whale population. The intensive ...

An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in ...

In November 1970, a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach ... Spectators take a look at damaged cars after chunks of blubber smashed into them after a whale was blown up by officials on the ...

As they gathered Sunday to remember the whale's explosive demise decades ago, community members said they have fully embraced ...