Swimming with a sperm whale and its calf off the coast of Dominica. In my experience, the central danger of swimming with whales in the open ocean is not that you will get smushed or chomped by a ...

SEBASTIAN INLET, Fla. - A North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted swimming near Florida’s Space Coast. The ...

Gray whales have been veering off their normal routes along the West Coast and swimming under the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay in unprecedented numbers. Using thousands of photographs of ...

EYOS Expeditions, curator of all things involving private excursions on the seas, just unveiled a new series of voyages that ...

Satellites detect and confirm the presence of tiny red plankton, Calanus finmarchicus, that feeds and protects North Atlantic ...

Orcas made a spectacular showing this summer near British Columbia in Canada. And, lucky for us land-dwellers, many of those underwater moments were caught on camera. Explore.org's network of live ...

Whale watching season opens in Los Cabos, with local tour operators offering a variety of adventures involving enormous visitors.

The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale is on the right track. After teetering on the brink of extinction for over a century, this giant marine mammal (Eubalaena glacialis) is finally ...

A Bigg’s killer whale calf is seen swimming alongside its mom in the Salish Sea off Washington. Caio Ribeiro Eagle Wing Tours / Pacific Whale Watch Association A killer whale has become a first-time ...

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them.

Weighing up to several tons, whale sharks are also notable for their markings. Each pattern of spots is unique and scientists identify individual fish using computer programs first developed to study ...

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest cetacean on the planet. While some have claimed that there were ...