Any individual with a name like Peter Rabbit might be expected to crave carrots and cabbage, but there is now a bearer of the name that, instead, has a voracious appetite for zooplankton. The list was ...

A 3-year-old North Atlantic right whale male now swimming the sea may not have the moves like Mick Jagger, but he certainly has the lips. That's what's earned the animal, a member of a critically ...

Scientists may finally have an explanation for the longstanding mystery of why blue whale calves are rarely sighted, an ...

In what is believed to be the first time in two decades, a blue whale was seen in the waters off Cape Ann this week. The largest animal on the planet, the blue whale seen Monday was almost as long as ...