With his long silver locks and rugged beard, Paul Watson resembles a modern-day Captain Ahab, the fictional whaler ... of a ...

For a recent contest, topiarists—gardeners who clip plants into elaborate sculptures—displayed their creations to the world.

The Great White Whale tells the story of the little-known venture to climb Australia’s highest mountain on remote Heard ...

A Blue Kingdom and Wildlife Tours boat skippered by Captain Tyler McKeen spotted the humpback whale swimming toward a school of fish last Thursday in the waters off Anacortes, Washington.

Loading Dillon has drawn on a remarkable archive of 16mm film shot during the expedition to make the documentary The Great White Whale, which was how they referred to their Captain Ahab-like ...

The mammal was known locally as Hvaldimir, a pun on the Norwegian word for whale, "hval," and Russian President Vladimir Putin's first name A beluga whale suspected of being a Russian spy found ...

THE TRYING-OUT OF MOBY-DICK (400 pp.)—Howard P. Vincent—Houghton Mifflin ($5). At first, all Herman Melville wanted to do was to write an exciting story. His earlier novels, lively adventure ...

A lucky group of swimmers from charity Ocean Culture Life (OCL) were met with a rare treat on a trip to Tonga – an encounter with an all-white humpback whale calf. The team, who were on one of ...

The group of about 50 people were aboard the Condor Express, which conducts whale watching tours daily through the Santa Barbara Channel, according to Capt. Dave Beezer, who has been working for ...