Great white sharks ( Carcharodon carcharias) are often unfairly the stuff of marine nightmares. But these infamously fearsome ...

Whether capturing them on film, containing them in amusement parks, or subjecting them to scientific experiments, our curiosity about whales and dolphins has compelled us to capture them out of the ...

A widely publicized killer whale attack once seemed to explain why white sharks disappeared from a key aggregation site. Long-term tracking now suggests the reality is more nuanced. Killer whales (Orc ...

Free Willy actor Jason James Richter urges France to relocate captive killer whales Wikie and Keijo from Marineland ...

Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators.

Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishing community came out in force Friday against proposed rule changes aimed at protecting humpback whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear. The rules, proposed in a ...

A female humpback whale who washed ashore in Newport Beach was washed back out to sea, but scientists were able to gather a wealth of information.

Hidden inside that snot are clues as to how changes in the environment could affect the immune system of beluga whales and their resiliency to climate change.

Researchers from Mystic Aquarium are heading to the icy tundras of Canada to study beluga breath. That’s the white-plume mixture of water cells, proteins and lung fluid that whales exhale when they ...

A new calf joins the Southern Resident orcas in the Salish Sea, marking a significant moment for marine conservation efforts.

Biologists with the Center for Whale Research have documented a new southern resident killer whale calf traveling with L pod.