Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language.

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances ...

Join Museum scientists as they reflect on becoming part of this specimen's giant story. Since its arrival at the Museum in the 1880s, the blue whale skeleton has been part of an ever-expanding ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

That’s because Rocha said the rare blue whale skeleton is actually leaking ... “The outer edges of the bone are a little more porous than human bones and [gravity is] just pulling the oil ...

Trace the 126-year journey of the blue whale from the sea to Museum. A blue whale skeleton weighing 4.5 tonnes is one of the first things visitors encounter when they enter the recently redeveloped ...