Close encounters between humans and whales are rare, but they do happen. While most of these incidents end with awe and a story to tell, they also raise a terrifying question. What if a whale actually ...

Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue ...

A lobster diver working off the coast of Cape Cod says he found himself in a predicament of Biblical proportions Friday when he was gulped up by a humpback whale. According to WBZ-TV and the Cape Cod ...

A humpback whale entangled in a long rope — stretching more than the length of a football field — was recently rescued off the coast of Australia. The marine mammal, a roughly 35-foot juvenile, was ...

A Cape Cod lobster diver is safe following a fluke encounter with a humpback whale that nearly made him the leviathan's lunch. Michael Packard was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, ...

Dekker, who was guiding the July 22 tour, didn't know it then, but he ended up capturing an occurrence so unusual that many marine mammal researchers had never seen it before. The photo shows the ...