Nature enthusiasts from across the country on Thursday hopped on board a full-day boating adventure in the hopes of getting an up-close encounter with the largest animal on Earth -- the blue whale.

The blue whale season typically does not begin until late spring or early summer, making this early arrival noteworthy.

At least 30 blue whales have been spotted in the waters of Loreto Bay National Park this season A rare blue whale with albinism was spotted off the coast of Loreto, Mexico, in the marine area of ...

It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of the blue whale—the largest animal ever to live on Earth. A detail like that ...

Two blue whales were recently spotted by a team of scientists from the New England Aquarium. This marks the first time the aquarium has documented a blue whale in the southern New England survey area.

A chance encounter at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has led to the restoration of a long-time, massive display of a blue whale skeleton display at the university. Forty-six years ago, a ...

Whale biologist Carrie Newell spotted four blue whales feeding about 3 to 4 miles offshore from Depoe Bay, Oregon on June 27 — an exceptionally rare event in the state’s coastal waters. Newell, ...

A team of scientists from the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life spotted two blue whales, including this one, 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard on Feb. 28. Scientists with ...