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 ...

An endangered whale is swimming freely after locals stepped in to help. Somehow a juvenile pygmy blue whale wedged itself underneath a privately owned pier in New Zealand. It took a rescue crew ...

Have you ever imagined how magnificent it would be if you find yourself paddling above the water and you witness a glorious blue whale swimming right beside you? It would be a spectacular sight, but ...

A blue whale mother and calf are swimming together in the Gulf of California in Baja, Mexico, one of the warm-water places blue whales spend their winter months. Only two blue whale births have ever ...

“The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed “blue,” ...

Whale watchers touring the coast of Cape May got a rare glimpse of a blue whale — the world's largest animal — during a wildlife research trip earlier this month. The sighting happened Sept. 12 on a ...