A Cuvier's beaked whale—also referred to as a ziphius—found itself stranded on Thursday at Baracoa Beach in the province of ...

A dead whale that washed up in the Philippines had 40kg (88lbs) of plastic bags inside its stomach, researchers have said. Workers at D'Bone Collector Museum recovered the Cuvier's beaked whale ...

They also observed Cuvier’s beaked whales and bottlenose dolphins, including a young adult sperm whale previously seen off southern France. The distance between sighting locations made this the ...

The longest ever recorded dive by a whale was made by a Cuvier's beaked whale. It lasted 222 minutes and broke the record for diving mammals. Other whales can also hold their breath for a very long ...

A beluga whale that lived off Norway's coast and whose harness ignited speculation that it was a Russian spy, was not shot to death as claimed by animal rights groups but died of a bacterial ...

The whale—known variously as Kim ... Acoustic detections found: sperm whales (three encounters), Cuvier's beaked whales (one encounter), bottlenose dolphins (one encounter) and unidentified ...

A naturalist was left astounded after taking a once-in-a-lifetime photograph of a bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the 40-ton marine mammal accidentally swallowed it.

Experts say they cannot remove a stranded dead whale from a beach. The animal, believed to be a minke or fin whale, washed up on Hartlepool's Headland beach on Sunday and remains there days later.

By the time a global moratorium on commercial whaling, approved by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), went into effect in 1986, scientists estimated that whale numbers had plummeted from 66 ...

God sends a great storm and the sailors throw Jonah overboard and he is promptly swallowed by the whale. Jonah spends three days in the whale's stomach praying to God for forgiveness and when a ...

Thanks to its nutrient-rich waters, Santa Barbara, California, is considered one of the best places on the West Coast for whale watching. More than 30 species of whales, dolphins, porpoises ...