Whales

Thomas Cook has announced it will cease ticket sales to any attraction featuring captive cetaceans, including dolphins, whales and orcas

Catherine Cushenan (@catsharks) is a shark ecologist, freediver and underwater photographer with a particular love of charismatic megafauna

Check out the teaser trailer for Our Planet II, a four-part series narrated by David Attenborough coming to Netflix on 14 June

A new study by researchers in Iceland documents the first case of a pilot whale calf being adopted and cared for by an adult female orca.

Blue whales could be ingesting up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day, according to a study published in Nature Communications.

Humpback whales have been spotted off the coast of Cornwall, bringing hope of a 'bumper season' of sightings for the south west UK

Major breakthrough in campaign to stop lethal shipping collisions with resident pygmy blue whales in Sri Lanka

Scientists call for speed limits on fast ferries linking the Canary Islands as evidence mounts they kill sperm whales and other cetaceans.

Swimming with whales and other megafauna is an important driving force behind marine conservation - but it needs to be done responsibly

Iceland's Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture has suggested that the nation may cease commercial whaling by 2024

An endangered population of blue whale is a risk from tankers and container ships in one on the world's busiest shipping lanes

Five unmissable short videos of extremely close encounters with whales and orcas. Moving, heart-stopping and very joyful.

A New Zealand beaked whale stranding has led scientists to discover it is a previously unrecorded genetically distinct species

The blue whale is a catalogue of superlatives – the largest animal in the ocean and the largest creature known to have ever lived on earth.

International outcry as the Japanese Government announces it plans to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC)