In 1865, a blue whale washed ashore in Askin Bay near Göteborg, Sweden. The whale wasn't rescued-instead, August Wilhelm Malm, a taxidermist and curator at the Gothenburg Museum, purchased it for ...

Justin Fuller photographed a humpback whale with its baleen exposed while on a Whale Watch tour with Rudee Tours in Virginia Beach. Baleen is a filter-feeding system that is a series of fringed plates ...

CATOOSA, Okla. — Drive along Route 66 , and you can't miss the famous Blue Whale of Catoosa. The tourist destination has made a splash for decades and is about to get a boost. 2 News Oklahoma's Julie ...

In what is believed to be the first time in two decades, a blue whale was seen in the waters off Cape Ann this week. The largest animal on the planet, the blue whale seen Monday was almost as long as ...

There are one or two things one does not do in the company of great blue herons. First, if you are presented with a wounded heron that’s been confined to a burlap sack, do not open the sack to look in ...

Three titans of the ocean were captured on camera in a “race” off the coast of Australia. Ant Rozetsky via Unsplash Despite being the largest animal on the planet, blue whales maintain a life of ...

Back from its first postwar cruise to the antarctic was Britain’s whaling fleet of three great “factory ships.” Instead of the 75,000 tons of whale oil which Britain’s Food Ministry had hoped for, ...