One day the Archbishop of Malta, Sir Michael Gonzi, sent for the editor of the secular Sunday Times of Malta to complain about a three-column picture of girls aged eight to 10 performing ballet at the ...

For many, their devotion to ritual and tradition is as much a part of what it means to be a Greenlander as is their fierce ...

Some even tune in to radio-transmitted services on their phones on a break from fishing and hunting for seals, whales and polar ... a colony under Denmark’s crown until 1953, when it became ...

He needed to get a crown. What happens when doctors get frustrated ... It lost its filling. Why did the whale blush? It saw the ocean’s bottom. How do you get an astronaut’s baby to stop ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

A Spanish photographer has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year for his picture of a humpback whale and her newborn calf in French Polynesia. Alvaro Herrero beat more than 6,750 other ...

New findings suggest the evolution and behavior of at least some baleen whales has been significantly shaped by fear of orca attack.

Humpback whales have been unveiled as the subject of the latest set of commemorative stamps, to be released this week. The ...

A young pygmy killer whale — a rare type of dolphin — was recently rescued after becoming stranded on a shore in South America. The incident occurred on March 18 in Buxton, Guyana — a small town ...