This whale of a tale has a happy ending. On Sunday, swimmers at the Coromuel water park in La Paz, Mexico, noticed a juvenile humpback whale seemed...

At first, your eyes wander near and far in an attempt to take in the enormity of the creature. Then, a voice in your head screams, having realized that you're in the presence of the largest animal that's ever lived.

This morning (February 20, 2013) the news from Down Under reported that Japan has halted its whale hunt in the Great Southern Ocean Sanctuary. Amidst ...

Some tourists have a whale of a tale to tell about their trip to Maui. Laurent Lebihan was on an excursion off the Hawaiian island with other padd...

A photographer driving along the coast in California pulled over and managed to capture some unbelievable shots of a humpback whale rising from the wa...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Grab your camera and binoculars: There's rarely been a better time to go whale-watching off the California coast. Tourists from...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A marine biologist who runs popular whale-watching tours on California's Monterey Bay has been indicted for violating federal laws th...

Humpback whales shocked a bikini-clad surfer and two kayakers this past week when they leapt out of the water and lunged disturbingly close to the gro...

When Michael Fishbach set out for his day of boating around the beautiful waters of the Sea of Cortez, he probably didn't think that it would be the d...

When a humpback whale's tail swung over a small boat in Australia, it knocked a 13-year-old boy unconscious--but he survived the onslaught, the Daily ...

As part of an effort to understand ocean currents, and how they would influence the movement of a potential oil spill, scientists recently dropped 'drift bottles' into the Pacific Ocean.

I was happy to see the show bring up the issue of how animals are threatened by oil spills. But I also thought it was odd how the show made cleaning up a spill seem so easy.

LAHAINA, Hawaii — A juvenile humpback whale entangled in hundreds of feet of heavy rope off the Hawaii coast was being tracked by marine experts...

Marine Mammal Conservation Through The Arts is producing a documentary about Bryant Austin, a photographer whose life-size photographs of endangered w...

With Fall upon us and temperatures starting to drop, animals are starting to migrate to warmer places to spend their winters. From snow geese to whal...

The whale, which was first reported by a phone call from a resident around 8 a.m., does not appear to be injured or entangled (unlike another recent w...