In the heart of the Egyptian Desert, Wadi Al-Hitan, or “Valley of the Whales,” fossilised whale skeletons lie exposed beneath the sun. Their vertebrae stretch across the sand in long, curved lines, as ...

Hong Kong’s Ocean Park will transform its North Pole Encounter zone into a marine mammal conservation centre featuring the skeleton of a whale that washed ashore in Sai Kung in 2023. The new exhibit, ...

Two fossilised whale skeletons, thought to be around 10 million years old, have been discovered on a Portuguese beach. The partial skeletons were identified at the end of last week following ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a cold morning 40 years ago, the fins of a huge whale sliced through the surf at North Myrtle Beach, rising high above the ...

Nor did the skeleton wind up in a display at South Carolina’s State Museum in Columbia, as officials had planned in 1986. What’s known is that a contractor deposited the whale carcass in the woods ...

On the weekend of March 7, 1986, a huge humpback whale washed ashore at North Myrtle Beach. A local politician fought to prevent North Carolina State University from putting the bones on display in ...

The 16th annual Whalefest will center on Monterey’s historic Old Fisherman’s Wharf and the Custom House Plaza. For serious whale enthusiasts, it’s a must-attend, with marine scientists sharing their ...

Federal ‘God squad’ poised to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf from endangered species rules Here's the best place in California to see whales Sonoma Coast named best place in the US for whale ...

A Stejneger’s beaked whale skeleton has hung in Storer Hall for over 40 years. (Courtesy) Long ago, on a faraway Aleutian island, a pair of rare beaked whales got stranded. One was saved by biologists ...

Canada had a dead whale. The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi wanted it. This is how it made its epic move. When the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi (NHMAD) agreed to take on a 25-metre blue whale ...