As the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, Watson has long stood at the ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

The ferry was late, but not because of the usual traffic. Sydney commuters watched from an idling boat this month as humpback whales the size of buses surfaced ...

A true titan of the ocean, the Blue Whale reigns as the largest and most powerful creature on Earth. With its immense size, ...

The animal kingdom has some giants. Blue Whale is the heaviest animal. Whale Shark is the largest fish. African Elephant is ...

In a new study, Cartwright and a team of strandings specialists documented how a “companion whale” tries to help when an individual humpback whale gets entangled in fishing gear. 3:47 ...

A massive killer whale swam deep into Yaquina Bay, hunting alone and stunning onlookers. Here's what we know about T049C — and why he's so well known.

Entangled juvenile humpback whale rescued by conservation officials and local anglers off the coast of New Zealand, photos show. ‘Precious species’ ...

Antarctic krill is a key species in the Antarctic marine ecosystem: it is an important food source for many species, such as whales, seals and penguins. However, the small crustaceans are ...

In this study, we extracted encounters between krill fishing vessels and air-breathing krill predators from more than 30,000 h of acoustic data recorded with echosounders aboard three different krill ...

Once a hotspot for commercial whaling, a section of WA coast has become a sanctuary for newborn southern right whale calves. But the population is still struggling to recover.