Whales spend their lives moving enormous amounts of organic material through the world’s oceans. Their bodies contain vast ...

A large international team of marine researchers monitored the seafloor surrounding the corpse of a whale that had sunk 4,920 ...

This sea monster has been discussed since ancient times, yet it's rarely been seen by modern scientists. But it just might be ...

For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries. Although identified in 1958, our basic understanding of this rare whale was ...

A group of “rarely seen” Gervais’ beaked whales was recently spotted near Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago, photos show. Screengrab from the Magic Dolphin ecotour agency A mysterious group of ...

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The whales are considered "data deficient" because they're so elusive New England Aquarium/Facebook A rare species of whale was sighted off the coast of Cape Cod this month Three True's beaked whales ...