Like a group of scheming teens shifting their conversation when a teacher walks by, sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) ...

Mother right whales were captured in a rare video with their bellies up. It could be a sign they need a break.

SAN DIEGO — Researchers reveal alarming statistics about gray whales, declaring a "catastrophic mortality event" along the West Coast as strandings escalate dramatically this year. The National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For centuries, enormous fossilized teeth found along coastlines led people to believe dragons once roamed the Earth. The real ...

For centuries, enormous fossilized teeth found along coastlines led people to believe dragons once roamed the Earth. The real explanation turned out to be just as incredible: they belonged to gigantic ...

The Santa Barbara Zoo welcomed a set of twins into the world on Thursday, July 2. Ruby and Raj, the zoo’s pair of endangered red pandas, are the first-time parents of two tiny cubs — the first red ...

During whale season, Maui’s warm waters become an important gathering place for humpback whales. Pairs like this may be traveling calmly, socializing, or staying in close contact as part of the ...

There are hundreds of whale-watching tours operating daily in the U.S. Worldwide, whale watching is a major industry with millions of participants and hundreds of operators across many countries. With ...

Something as simple as the word you use for a bread roll (cob, bun, bap, batch or barm cake, for example) can tell people a lot about where you’re from and your identity. But dialects like these ...

Explosions are messy at the best of times, but when the thing exploding is an animal, or part of an animal, it rarely ends well. Believe it or not, there are some species that choose to self-destruct ...