A 50-foot giant from the depths of the Pacific Ocean has washed up on the Oregon coast. The massive creature - a 53-foot male ...

In a nutshell Stone Age humans extensively harvesting whale products 20,000 years ago — roughly 1,000 years earlier than previously known — using at least six different whale species along Europe’s ...

A study of prehistoric bone tools from the Bay of Biscay revealed that they were 20,000 years old, the oldest known example ...

From puffins and trendy cafes, to untouched rugged coastlines and ancient ruins, Éadaoin Fitzmaurice shares her pick of the best islands to explore across the country.

Moby-Dick has a fearsome reputation: dense, time-consuming, boring and bizarre. This reputation (although not absolutely ...

North Pacific Right Whale (Eubalaena japonica) - The smooth-edged flukes showing more coronulid barnacles. NPRW4ever (Jim Scarff ... right whales, and sperm whales. Other baleen and toothed whale ...

An adult sperm whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast, and according to a necropsy conducted by researchers, it could have ...

It had long been speculated, but never proven, that sperm whales hunt on the bottom of the ocean floor. "The Americas" team finally proved the theory right. Marine scientists had long speculated ...

A recent study, published in Papers in Palaeontology, discusses the reanalysis of the only known Idiorophus patagonicus specimen. After a nearly 130-year scientific slumber, the study, titled ...

Researchers reanalyzing 15-million-year-old fossils unearthed in California over a century ago have described a new sperm whale genus: Albicetus, after the toothy white leviathan of Herman ...

An endangered sperm whale found dead on the Oregon coast was struck by a vessel. The whale will remain on the beach to decompose naturally.