For years, there have been stories and photographs of “odd-looking” killer whales lurking in some of the roughest parts of the sub-Antarctic seas. Named Type D killer whales, these whales are quite ...

When Charles “Stormy” Mayo helped found the Provincetown-based Center for Coastal Studies in 1976, he said there were very few, if any, North Atlantic right whales for him to study in Cape Cod Bay in ...

In 1841, in the early days of paleontology, the notoriously cantankerous anatomist Richard Owen, the man who would later coin the term “dinosaur,” stood before his colleagues at the Geological Society ...

Scientists say they've found a mysterious type of killer whale that they've been searching for for years. It lives in parts of the ocean near Antarctica — and it could be the largest animal to have ...

Welcome to Fossil Friday, a weekly collection of the coolest fossil finds of the week. This week’s finds include a bejeweled dinosaur, three new whales and a strange flea. An as- yet unnamed new ...

Scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the Universidad Austral de Chile, the Blue Whale Center, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), NOAA, and other organizations are examining ...

You have the privilege of sharing the planet with the largest animal that ever lived on Earth. The great blue whale, which can be found in every ocean around the globe, is bigger than any dinosaur you ...

Dinosaur means “terrible lizard.” The idea that the prehistoric creatures were scaly, sluggish reptiles with sprawling postures that dragged their tails through tropical swamps is deeply imprinted in ...

A rare photo of "type D" killer whales off South Georgia island, located between South America and Antarctica, shows the whales' blunt heads and tiny white eye patches. (Courtesy of J.P. Sylvestre) ...

Scientists say they've found a mysterious type of killer whale that they've been searching for for years. It lives in parts of the ocean near the Antarctic — and it could be the largest animal to have ...