Right whales, still recovering from intensive whale hunting, have added a few more individuals to their small population.

Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.

In 1865, a blue whale washed ashore in Askin Bay near Göteborg, Sweden. The whale wasn't rescued-instead, August Wilhelm Malm, a taxidermist and curator at the Gothenburg Museum, purchased it for ...