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If you love whales, hurry and plan your travel for the 12th annual Whalefest Monterey, coming up on March 19 and 20. People come to Monterey, California from around the world to celebrate cetaceans and get the lowdown from...

Marine mammal conservationists warn of a contagious respiratory pathogen, cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV), that could potentially harm already endangered orca populations...

In 2019, two beluga whales, named Little Grey and Little White, will be transported from the Changfeng Ocean World aquarium in Shanghai to the world's first whale sanctuary in a protected bay in Iceland...

Fishing boats in the Gulf of Alaska are being stalked by enormous sperm whales, which charge in and rip huge volumes of fish from the lines

A small male pilot whale, found unable to breath or move in a canal in Thailand last week, has died from large amounts of plastic clogging its digestive system...

We know almost nothing about the enormous beaked whales because they spend so much time deep underwater, but a new DNA technique could unmask them

Japanese hunters recently killed 122 pregnant minke whales as part of a so-called field survey, the BBC reported. The hunters caught the whales for scientific study — even though in 2014 the United Nations ruled against...

People have occasionally glimpsed tailless whales in western North America, but a recent spike in sightings has troubled scientists. This year alone, at least three flukeless gray whales have been spotted near California....

Bowhead whales are such talented singers they can make two sounds simultaneously, and they invent new songs every year

The impact of humanity's pollution on nature became all too real in a heartbreaking clip from Blue Planet II. A mother pilot whale grieved her dead baby, carrying it around with her. The calf may have died because of industrial...

When a bowhead whale washed ashore at Wrangel Island in Russia, the polar bears were ready. Between 150 and 230 bears gathered to eat the carcass, and tourists captured the experience on camera. As there are around 26,000...

A beached whale is a tragic sight - but a community of sun-worshippers in Brazil refused to sit by when it happened on their beach. Hundreds of people rallied around a stranded humpback whale in Buzios, digging around the...

A large number of humpback whale mortalities along the United States' East Coast has scientists concerned. 41 humpback whales perished between Maine and North Carolina in the last 15 months, prompting a National Oceanic and...

Iceland is often listed as the greenest country in the world, but one industry puts a black stain on their record – whaling. In 1986, the International Whaling Commission issued a moratorium on commercial whaling, but Iceland...

New Zealand has announced plans to turn a vast area of the South Pacific, about 600 miles northeast of New Zealand's North Island, into a marine sanctuary...