Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Herman Melville once wrote about the strange beauty of ambergris in Moby Dick, marveling that the fragrant material once widely ...

Being swallowed by a whale sounds like something straight out of a fairy tale. Stories like Jonah and the Whale have been around for centuries, and every so often a modern version appears claiming ...

A young sperm whale that washed ashore on the southeast coast of Spain in February most likely died after being unable to digest more than 60 pounds of plastic trash, fish netting and garbage bags in ...

An entangled humpback whale that stranded near Yachats in November 2025 had chronic diseases in multiple organ systems that likely contributed to the stranding, a final necropsy report concluded. The ...