Whale watchers touring the coast of Cape May got a rare glimpse of a blue whale — the world's largest animal — during a wildlife research trip earlier this month. The sighting happened Sept.

Those who have stopped by the New Bedford Whaling Museum have more than likely marveled over the 60-foot whale skeleton ...

When visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum in southeastern Massachusetts, you might want to be a little careful standing under their 66-foot-long blue whale skeleton. That’s because these blue whale ...

Naturally is a bi-weekly column written in the Herald, written by the folks at the New Jersey Audubon, about our ...

A naturalist was left astounded after taking a once-in-a-lifetime photograph of a bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the 40-ton marine mammal accidentally swallowed it.

The blue whale is renowned as the Earth’s largest animal, taking that title today by quite some distance. That holds true even stretching back through time as these enormous marine mammals are even ...

Boaters in New Jersey waters got the sighting of a lifetime when a blue whale swam into view. “We witnessed the largest living animal in the world off the coast of Cape May,” Cape May Whale ...

Local residents spotted the whale in distress and swiftly alerted authorities, prompting a coordinated rescue effort led by New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC). Despite being a juvenile and ...

Why they're awesome: The largest animal on Earth is thought to be the blue whale, but these strange sea creatures can grow even longer — reaching up to 150 feet (46 meters) in length.

An endangered whale is swimming freely after locals stepped in to help. Somehow a juvenile pygmy blue whale wedged itself underneath a privately owned pier in New Zealand. It took a rescue crew ...

A baby pygmy blue whale has been freed having been trapped under a wharf in New Zealand. The mammal, approximately 14-15 metres in length, became stranded on Kawau Island, off New Zealand’s North ...