A dead sperm whale that washed up on a Nantucket beach is making waves for local officials who are trying to move it. The 50-foot, 104,000-pound male sperm whale appeared on the island off ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

The Galapagos Islands are unique and fascinating for many reasons. Situated on the equator, west of Ecuador, they are home to ...

Up and down the New England coast, there is beautiful marine life that many lifelong residents may never have the opportunity to see. Granite State Whale Watches is trying to change that, by taking ...

Scientists in Madeira study the impacts of plastics on whales and dolphins. Far out in the eastern Atlantic, the Portuguese island of Madeira rises from the depths of the open ocean. Despite its ...

WASHINGTON — Officials near a Nantucket beach have a whale-sized problem. That's not surprising considering the problem is literally a whale. A dead sperm whale washed up on the shore of the ...

Free-diving instructor Emily Marzilli and her friends went diving in Magdalena Bay off Baja California Sur and had a close encounter with a whale While the group was diving near a large school of ...