Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting ...

Japan's government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson after Danish authorities ...

A French theme park said Wednesday that it would close early ... Animal activists have been angered by Marineland's plans to transfer its two killer whales to Japan, a move France's ecology minister ...

New research reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years -- almost twice as long as previously understood. New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales ...

Sperm whales live in the depths of the ocean. They dive as deep as 900 meters (nearly 3,000 feet) to forage and spend only about 10 minutes of every hour on the surface. Their world is cold and dark, ...

Two endangered whales were spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts, and one is likely to die from its injuries, the federal government said. They are North Atlantic right whales ...

WORCESTER CO., MD - The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Fisheries announced the extension of a right whale Slow Zone after the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales were ...

Most shipping paths cross whale habitats, a recent analysis concluded, making ship collisions a “major threat” to the world’s whales. The study, published in Science last month, conducted a ...

A French theme park said Wednesday that it would ... Animal activists have been angered by Marineland's plans to transfer its two killer whales to Japan, a move France's ecology minister said ...

Pictures and videos have revealed new, specialised hunting techniques used by killer whales to attack the world's largest fish, according to scientists. On four occasions caught on video ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of ...