Cheers: To a whale of a tale. An article from Columbian reporter Doug Flanagan last week illuminates a slice of Clark County history. Apparently, there is an orca carcass buried on Livingston Mountain ...

In the epic novel Moby-Dick, the titular character—an albino sperm whale—rams into and sinks a ship. Herman Melville’s fictional tale was inspired by an actual event that occurred in 1820, when one of ...

Unrelated animals worked with the mother and her relatives, marking the first known evidence of whales from multiple families ...

A pod of orcas that had not been recorded in Seattle before is delighting whale watchers with several visits just off ...

The episode, involving a group of sperm whales, adds to evidence that humans aren’t the only species that gets some form of assistance during and after delivery. By Catrin Einhorn At first, the ...

A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording ...

One windsurfer is lucky to be alive after colliding with a massive gray whale in San Francisco. Eric Kramer was windsurfing at Crissy Field when the encounter happened. Kramer was gliding across the ...

The gray whale, which some locals affectionately named Willapa Willy, was found on Saturday afternoon after first being ...

Scientists are sharing their remarkable findings about sperm whales after studying what they call the "most comprehensive" documentation of a sperm whale birth. According to a release from Project ...