Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pygmy blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda, swims in the Banda Sea, Indonesia. This huge cetacean reaches up to 24 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surviving at 3,000 feet requires a biological defense that relies on foul, pigmented secretions. Dark, inky clouds provide ...

A rare whale died off the coast of Honduras after ingesting a plastic bag in what's been described as a "tragic event." The marine mammal—a young pygmy sperm whale—was spotted in distress near the ...

Pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) are among the ocean's most enigmatic inhabitants—rarely seen and largely unstudied. They live far offshore in small groups, diving in search of squid and fish.

Up to 15 rare pygmy killer whales have died in a stranding on Ninety Mile Beach in the Far North, eight years after the same ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists in Indonesia have tagged a pygmy blue whale for the first time using a drone. Data from the tag revealed a previously unknown path used ...

Scientists studying decades of pygmy sperm whale strandings have uncovered three previously unknown types of Helicobacter bacteria hiding in the animals’ stomachs. All four infected whales showed ...

Off the coast of Western Australia, in an area called Bremer Canyon, over 60 orcas took down an early 60-foot-long pygmy blue whale in a brutal 90-minute slaughtering. Images of the attack were shared ...

A pygmy blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda, swims in the Banda Sea, Indonesia. This huge cetacean reaches up to 24 meters in length and makes up to about half of all blue whales alive.© ...