Egyptian artifacts, dinosaur fossils and taxidermy mounts headline eccentric items at the SkullStore Oddity Shop and ...

Scientists in Thailand just discovered the stunningly well-preserved remains of a whale that lived between 3,000 and 5,000 ...

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

The whale skeleton measured about 3.50 meters in length and was largely complete. From an area of approximately six square meters, the team recovered the skull with teeth, the shoulder blade ...

Project Jonah was called to reports of up to 30 pilot whales coming on-shore about 7pm Saturday. Local medics and the senior Project Jonah team stayed with the whales until last light. It was the ...

Volunteers, Department of Conservation staff, Project Jonah members and mana whenua will spend another day trying to keep stranded whales alive in Golden Bay. One of two pods of pilot whales ...

On Sunday, there is a free whale-skeleton painting event at MacKerricher State Park in Fort Bragg, in which visitors can slap protective paint on the articulated bones of a 30-foot gray whale.

And on the other side of the Atlantic, an entire pod of 77 pilot whales washed up on a beach in Orkney off the northeastern coast of Scotland, one of the largest mass strandings recorded in decades.

On Sunday, there is a free whale-skeleton painting event at MacKerricher State Park in Fort Bragg, in which visitors can slap protective paint on the articulated bones of a 30-foot gray whale.

"When a whale dies, its body sinks into that world, where it creates an island of life for deep-sea animals. "Scavengers pick the meat from the bones and the skeleton is left. "The whale skeleton ...

Almost 100 pilot whales have died in a mass stranding on New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands. Conservation officers said they were notified about the incident on Sunday but by the time they ...

Two members from the National Parks and Wildlife Services were guarding the mammal, as they waited for professionals to arrive and take the whale away from the beach. A dead pygmy sperm whale ...