While most whales that wash ashore have been dead for weeks and are badly decomposed, this individual was euthanized on land. That afforded scientists an opportunity to study humpback anatomy.

Orcas, often referred to as "killer whales," have earned their intimidating nickname for a reason. These magnificent ...

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'These things were crazy dangerous.' Bones of ancient whale found in Mississippi 'These things were huge. They got up to 60-to-70-feet long. These things were more ferocious than mosasaurs.' ...

Rounding out the Top 5 list of most dangerous nations were India and Russia with respective scores of 77.86 and 75.65. 6. Pushkar, India. henktennapel – stock.adobe.com.

During his underwater search, he gets swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale, ... the young man finds a surprising reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.

What is the Most Dangerous Animal on Earth? It's Not a Lion or an Orca Whale! Most Dangerous Animals in the World: The deadliest animal on Earth isn't a large predator but the tiny mosquito.

Rice’s whales are big mammals, measuring up to 41 feet (12.5 meters) and weighing in at up to 60,000 pounds (27,215 kilograms). They also face numerous threats, largely due to industrial activity.

Entangled humpback whale rescued from ropes during “difficult and dangerous” mission near Skye off the coast of Scotland, video shows.

Los Cabos, a resort city on the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, with a murder rate of 111.3 per 100,000 people ...

Researchers have found that heavily used shipping lanes pass through crucial whale shark feeding grounds, posing a threat to this endangered species. Research published 15 May in Science of the ...

Simulations indicate whales see most of their surroundings in shadowy silhouettes and struggle to resolve fine-scale details until they’re extremely close, said Jacob Bolin, who conducted the ...