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Killer whale – Wrangel Island

A beautiful killer whale spotted from the boat, while cruising far from the coast. Orca, or killer whale (Orcinus orca), orque,…

The whale whose song is so elaborate, the humpback whale, is the easiest to observe in the cold waters of…

Gray whales have been hunted to extermination in the Atlantic Ocean. But you can still find some in the Pacific…

Belugas are not too difficult to find (much less than the elusive narwhal). But, like all whales, they are often…

Let’s admit that it won’t be easy to see such a whale shark baby playing (or discovering how to play)…

Two great videos. Quite different, but both amazing. The first one is really about being there at the right time…

Finally, a nice picture of Mom and her little one, cruising together in calm waters: Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus,…

Sunset encounters: Beaked whales according to the specialists, pilot whales do not really fear even large ships. They travel in…

Orcas are marvellous mammals fro mthe sea that are usually only seen from the water surface: a fin, a rostrum…

As seen from the cliffs in Hermanus, South Africa. August 2015.

Hermanus, in South Africa, considers itself as the world capital of “whale watching from the coast”. Reading this on the…

While you may be lucky enough to see whales from the sky like we did in August 2015, thanks to…

To start the publication of a series of photos shot in South Africa, here is gallery of some quite unusual…

A scientific study coming from Iceland suggest that in the recent years the minke whale population suddenly dropped from 45000…

See them all at http://www.naturesbestphotography.com/ Jürgen FreundOCEANSDwarf Minke WhaleRibbon Reefs, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Up to recently, scientists did not really know how whales could eat the enormous amounts of krill they need to…

We all knew that the whale was actually a terrestrial mammal gone back to the sea a few million years…

Did you know that whales not only sing but their songs are being decoded into talk? University of Queensland researcher…