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Blue whale. Image via Depositphotos. The blue whale, scientifically known as Balaenoptera musculus, is not just the largest whale but the largest known animal to have ever existed on Earth. Its size ...

Despite extensive studies, the mechanism behind whales’ long-distance communication has puzzled researchers for decades. Unlike terrestrial animals, whose communication is limited by physical ...

Worldwide, there are currently 58 orca whales in captivity. Conditions in aquatic theme parks and aquariums are not suitable for these beautiful animals. In Miami Seaquarium, a killer whale named ...

Whales are huge, long-lived mammals. The blue whale is the largest animal that’s ever lived on Earth — it is bigger than the dinosaurs. It can live an estimated 80 to 90 years! The bowhead whale, a ...

That's not quite the price tag that people put on animals like whales or wolves, but about the same as the perceived value of some other large vertebrates and way out of the league of most bugs.

It took about an hour for the rescuers to cut and remove the nets and allow the whale to swim into the open sea, close to the popular summer resort and beach in Miedzyzdroje, where the stranded animal ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. The pod of Bigg’s ...

“I never get tired of seeing these amazing animals," said Nancy Black, a marine biologist and owner of Monterey Bay Whale Watch. Black was on their whale watching vessel, the Sea Wolf, when they ...