About 100 miles south-west of Cairo, into the immeasurable landscape of Egypt’s Western Desert, an eerie wilderness materializes that gazes at the passing humans from the eyes of a mysterious past. A ...

Whales inhabited the waters today, but their history reveals that they once lived on land, likely with features that supported this lifestyle. The question of where they were and what they looked like ...

Move over, blue whale. You've been demoted. Scientists have discovered what they say could be the heaviest animal that ever lived on Earth: a gigantic ancient whale that may have been two to three ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

The blue whale is not only currently the biggest animal on Earth, but scientists long thought that it might be the largest animal to have ever lived. Now fossils unearthed in Peru suggest a giant ...

An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest lake, since Monday. It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in this vast ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena — Whale sharks shouldn't be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived. They are found ...

HILO, Hawaii (KITV4) -- Scientists say a whale that was found dead in waters off a Big Island beach on Tuesday may have died from an infectious disease. The 17-foot short-finned pilot whale was found ...