This 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual cetacean-like shape of Belize's Lighthouse Reef. It's home to the famous Great ...

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 ...

Slaughter for oil and baleen may have eased but there is a new threat... with the melting of Arctic ice, ship traffic is increasing and these slow-moving giants are being run down by ships ...

Catoosa is showing off what the Blue Whale could look like after millions of dollars in upgrades, including adding a new visitor’s center, an Airbnb, and restaurants. City leaders are excited about ...

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, ...