Iceland will resume fin whale hunting in 2026 after a two-year pause, despite welfare concerns, declining demand, and plans ...

They are big. They are beautiful. And they are back. The return of the humpback whale to greater numbers than observed in decades is part of a larger revival of marine mammals in the Salish Sea. It is ...

A new study shows that old whaling routes and Arctic ice still shape which bowhead whale populations recover today.

Killer whales are apex predators - intelligent, coordinated, and deadly. Yet for a time, humans didn’t fear them… they worked ...

In one of the strangest hunting partnerships ever recorded, humans and wild killer whales once worked together to hunt ...

Finding ways to ease the suffering of beached whales has been a challenge. Whale experts may have found an answer.

High school junior Tracy Tungiyan of Gambell interviewed a whaling captain to understand more about the hunt and its meaning ...

Bowhead whales miraculously escaped extinction after the practice of whaling. The effects of that time still linger today, ...

Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species ...

Populations of bowhead whales were able to hide from hunters under ice, a new study finds, saving them from extinction. But ...

We round up five destinations where sightings of cetacean life are almost guaranteed in the spring and summer months, from hotspots off the Azores coast to the skerries between Scottish islands.

Researchers find increase in whale deaths in the Bay, largely because of collisions with vessels on busy shipping route ...