“The Melville boom,” the critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote in 1921, is “only a question of time.” By the 1930s the prediction had been borne out; after decades of neglect, “Moby-Dick” (1851) was widely ...

Megalodon tends to dominate conversations about prehistoric ocean predators. Its massive jaws and oversized teeth have turned it into a pop-culture icon that feels almost mythical. Yet during the ...

SO YOU GET TO YOUR DESTINATION ON TIME. AN ENDANGERED WHALE HAS BEEN SPOTTED OFF THE COAST OF MERRITT ISLAND, AND NOW MARINE SCIENTISTS WANT TO WARN BOATERS TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE. THE NORTH ATLANTIC ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what’s now northern Australia, among the sea ...

A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale spotted off Ireland last year has made an "extraordinary" 3,000-mile journey to Boston, scientists say. The right whale was first seen in Ireland's ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A young humpback whale that washed ashore Saturday in Oregon had to be euthanized after two days of rescue efforts. The whale, a roughly 1 to 2-year-old humpback, had surfaced near San Marine ...

UPDATE: Humpback whale stranded on the Oregon Coast to be euthanized A humpback whale that spent the weekend trapped in fishing nets and then stranded on shore near Yachats was still breathing on ...

YACHATS Ore. (KPTV) - A beached humpback whale near Yachats was euthanized Monday afternoon, according to a state official. Jim Rice, the program director of OSU’s Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

A wildlife veterinarian who performs necropsies shares what it takes to investigate a whale stranding. When a whale dies, it often decomposes quite quickly—the process starts within hours of an animal ...