The sighting excites the researchers, but it also sounds alarms. Scientists stunned after whales make extraordinary ...

The infamous beast, The Meg, that terrorised divers in the blockbuster film of the same name was closer to a whale, research ...

The Meg was shaped more like a whale than the giant great white shark in the Jason Statham movies, suggests new research. Megalodon, the prehistoric ocean hunter, was a "longer, sleeker super ...

Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan ...

As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...

Apparently these deadly predators were the reason why whales were much smaller millions of years ago. Few fish are as steeped in myth and conjecture as the megalodon, a giant shark that lived ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

it's closer in length to a modern sperm whale. Its stomach may have held 10,000 litres, that's enough for it to have eaten 20 whole cows...if cows swam in the sea. How big are the megalodon's ...

Synchronised diving isn’t something only humans can do. Bowhead whales in the Arctic Ocean also sync up their dives – and they’re able to do so while dozens of kilometres apart from each ...