If you’re lucky enough to see a killer whale out in the wild, it’s mostly just its dorsal fin sticking out of the water. That’s why, in the first story in our Hostile Waters: Orcas In Peril series, we ...

Researchers at Dalhousie have scanned the skeleton of a young blue whale, giving them a trove of data on the endangered marine giant and creating a unique virtual 3D model of the largest animal on the ...

NEW YORK (voa) – Visitors to New York’s American Museum of Natural History are not likely to forget their first encounter with the giant blue whale suspended from the ceiling of the Museum’s Hall of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A series of meetings meant that I found ...

For the past three decades 8,000 pounds of fiberglass has been "sounding" from the ceiling in the Life in the Sea Hall of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). It is the most stupendous proxy ...

As fourth-graders last year, students from Savannah Country Day School toured the Jepson Center. Kids being kids they were “blown away” by an exhibition that included a life-size sperm whale made of ...

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago – 163 to be exact – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick was first published in the United States. In honor of this classic work, we'd like to share this whale themed slideshow.