The biggest whale species on Earth is a monster! There are plenty of large creatures within the Cetacea order (which contains ...

The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of ...

Sperm whales are named after the waxy substance found in their large heads called spermaceti. The spermaceti is an oil sac ...

You will find a wide and varied world full of life when you descend into the deep blue sea. Among the ocean’s inhabitants, whales and dolphins have a particular place in our hearts and fantasies. In ...

The rapid expansion, over-exploitation and subsequent decline in whale stocks in the northern hemisphere in the 20th century ...

Only two blue whale births have ever been recorded in human history, both decades ago. This remains an extraordinary mystery given there used to be hundreds of thousands of blue whales before whaling ...