The blue whale is renowned as the Earth’s largest animal, taking that title today by quite some distance. That holds true even stretching back through time as these enormous marine mammals are even ...

Animal rights groups on Wednesday said gunfire killed a beluga whale that rose to fame in Norway after its unusual harness sparked suspicions the creature was trained by Russia as a spy.

In July 2024, a pod of 77 pilot whales washed up on a beach in Orkney, Scotland. It was the largest mass stranding of whales in Scotland for decades. Scientists don't know exactly why whales beach ...

A beloved whale thought to have been trained as a “spy” by Russia and found dead earlier this month was not shot, a police autopsy has found. Animal rights groups had claimed that the beluga ...

There's no evidence that a well-known beluga whale that lived off Norway's coast and whose harness ignited speculation it was a Russian spy was shot to death last month as claimed by animal rights ...

HELSINKI — A white beluga whale named “Hvaldimir,” first spotted in Norway not far from Russian waters with a harness that ignited rumors he may be a Moscow spy, has been found dead.

A guide leading a group of snorkelers off the Gold Coast of Australia was suddenly thrust into the air by a humpback whale. Max Persyn and Jacqueline Payne were among the clients of a “swim with ...

Baleen whales come to feast on the bounty, and in 2010, two bowhead whales entered the bay to gorge. As the pair came within 100 kilometers of each other, they were visually out of range ...

Havldimir quickly became a celebrity in Norway, swimming his way into their Nordic hearts. But this beluga whale's odd story started in 2019 when he was discovered in northern Norway near the ...

A naturalist was left astounded after taking a once-in-a-lifetime photograph of a bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the 40-ton marine mammal accidentally swallowed it.

A beluga whale suspected of being a Russian spy found dead off the Norwegian coast was shot, animal rights activists have claimed. The body of the otherwise healthy and relatively young animal ...