White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Island, then eat the ...

A North Atlantic right whale was freed from fishing gear off the Georgia coast after a two-day rescue operation.

Researchers say the behavior has never before been observed in the population. Watch dolphins and killer whales hunt together ...

A young humpback whale that washed ashore Saturday in Oregon had to be euthanized after two days of rescue efforts. The whale, a roughly 1 to 2-year-old humpback, had surfaced near San Marine ...

A dead sperm whale that washed up on a Nantucket beach is making waves for local officials who are trying to move it. The 50-foot, 104,000-pound male sperm whale appeared on the island off ...

Rare tusked whales have been identified and photographed alive at sea for the first time following a herculean research effort off the shores of Mexico, a new study finds. The newly-sighted cetaceans ...

Dr. Gruber is a marine biologist and the head of Project CETI. One afternoon in January 2024, off the island of Dominica in the Atlantic Ocean, a sperm whale named Pinchy and I drifted calmly at the ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

A 2-year-old humpback whale that was stranded on a beach north of Yachats, Oregon, has been euthanized and removed. A young humpback whale that was euthanized on Monday has been removed from the ...

A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could be dragged out to sea by Thanksgiving. By Mike Ives A dead sperm whale — the ...

The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows. A group of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swims together in the Indian Ocean. For years, researchers ...

Since 2016, something strange has been happening on the U.S. East Coast. Whale carcasses have increasingly been washing ashore, often in an advanced state of decomposition. There has been such a ...