From “elusive” baby sea creatures to “divorcing” animal mates, here are some of the latest international animal stories.

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With its cartilaginous body and cold blood, the whale shark is decidedly not a whale. But this shark is about as long as a humpback and just as gentle. So gentle, in fact, that tours to dive with ...

Although we humans certainly do like to think of ourselves as smart, we only just discovered a new species of whale. The Rice's whale.

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

Trump's Monday order declaring a national energy emergency took direct aim at the authority provided by the Endangered ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century.

Just hours after his inauguration on Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for ...

Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater features such as seamounts and canyons as well as artificial features like ...

“Within eight million years, the ancestors of whales go from being fully terrestrial, such as the four-legged, furry ...

A group of Thai villagers were sent running for the hills after stumbling upon what they believed to be the lifeless remains of a dead alien ...