As Lisa Ballance walks around a lengthy column of vertebrae inside a storage facility in Newport, the joy on her face is obvious. “The last known blue whale record on record that stranded in Oregon ...

Two fossil bones long tagged as woolly mammoth have now been confirmed as whales after tests overturned their museum label.

When visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum in southeastern Massachusetts, you might want to be a little careful standing under their 66-foot-long blue whale skeleton. That’s because these blue whale ...