For whale enthusiasts, there’s one must-attend event in Northern California every year: Whalefest Monterey, taking place over ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded measured a staggering 33 metres in length. Some think that the whale shark’s cartilaginous skeleton may prevent it from reaching larger, blue whale-like ...

Their skeletons are made of cartilage - the same soft, flexible stuff as your ears and the tip of your nose are made of. This is true for all sharks, from the formidable great white to the gentle ...

The Museum of Alaska in Wasilla, formerly known as the Alaska Museum of Transportation and Industry, plans to take possession of whale's skeleton for use in an eventual educational display ...

Whale sharks are the largest fish on the planet; the average whale shark is between 18 and 40 feet long, though the Georgia Aquarium says the largest whale shark observed was 61.7 feet long.

The carcass of a whale found in Hong Kong waters will be buried on Monday but its skeleton will be used for research purposes later, the government has revealed. The Agriculture, Fisheries and ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week. This is ...

The bones of a blue whale that washed up on a Nova Scotia beach in 2017 are about to be hung up on display at Dalhousie University. Chris Harvey-Clark, a university veterinarian, spoke to the CBC's ...