Justin Fuller photographed a humpback whale with its baleen exposed while on a Whale Watch tour with Rudee Tours in Virginia Beach. Baleen is a filter-feeding system that is a series of fringed plates ...

Three titans of the ocean were captured on camera in a “race” off the coast of Australia. Ant Rozetsky via Unsplash Despite being the largest animal on the planet, blue whales maintain a life of ...

In 1865, a blue whale washed ashore in Askin Bay near Göteborg, Sweden. The whale wasn't rescued-instead, August Wilhelm Malm, a taxidermist and curator at the Gothenburg Museum, purchased it for ...

Back from its first postwar cruise to the antarctic was Britain’s whaling fleet of three great “factory ships.” Instead of the 75,000 tons of whale oil which Britain’s Food Ministry had hoped for, ...

Blue sharks (Prionace glauca) are one of the most widely distributed shark species, found in temperate and tropical waters across the globe. A dramatic encounter recently unfolded off the coast of ...