The New Bedford Whaling Museum hosts a 25-hour “read-a-thon” each year of Melville’s tome about one captain’s obsession with ...

Ira Gershwin put it like this: “Oh Jonah, he lived in the whale, / For he made his home in / That fish’s abdomen.” But Gershwin, or perhaps the character in Porgy and Bess who sings it ...

like that of David and Goliath or Jonah and the whale. Simply fantastical, the story seemed impossible to interpret literally and was therefore easy to dismiss. It wasn’t until I began visiting ...

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We owe it to the right whale — and to so many other species — to reconstruct what our own history has taken from them.

A 47-foot fin whale that washed up on Anchorage’s tidal mudflats in November is still drawing visitors, a month later. Why?

Blue #whales are like a Guardian of the ocean, they carry the soul and life of all species underwater. Inspired by them, we created a blue whale with transparent epoxy resin, inside which is a ...

Visitors to the Natural History Museum in London enter its Victorian hall under the long ribbed shadow of the skeleton of a blue whale. Foundered on a sand bank off the coast of Wexford in March ...

Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on the offensive. Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the ...

The bereaved whale mother who made headlines when she heartbreakingly grieved her dead baby for more than two weeks has given birth to a new calf, scientists said. The mama orca, named J35 by ...