Whale watching charter owners said they couldn’t remember a time over the last decade when blue whales, the earth’s largest mammals, showed up this late off Southern California. In recent years, their ...

SAN DIEGO — Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been sighted along the San Diego coastline, signaling the beginning of the blue whale watching season. The majestic creatures typically ...

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.

It was something they never expected to see: the largest mammal in the world swimming off the coast of New Jersey. Last weekend, about 50 passengers and crew aboard the Cape May Whale Watch and ...

A blue whale calf with its mother near the coast of island Pico (Azores)© tane-mahuta/iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images “The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue ...

Whale biologist Carrie Newell spotted four blue whales feeding about 3 to 4 miles offshore from Depoe Bay, Oregon on June 27 — an exceptionally rare event in the state’s coastal waters. Newell, ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked together ...

During the close encounter last week, on May 5, the fin whale gave a “friendly mugging,” the term used by naturalists to ...