The end of the year is when studios break out the big guns, but it seems moviegoers are pickier than ever

Attack victims finally have a meeting with McConnell over delays in reauthorizing the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund

An Oscar for best fat suit likely won't gain a year's worth of press like "the slap," but it's no less upsetting

Japan claims exceptions to international bans on the commercial trade of elephant ivory and whale meat

After fighting to protect whales for 30 years, the biologist who discovered that humpbacks sing still feels nothing but awe for the huge "impossible animals."

South Korea will begin "scientific whaling," killing minke whales, in move likely to outrage Australia

A sting exposes a restaurant's dirty sushi secret. But in some places, the marine giants are just a piece of meat

Residents -- and the Internet -- are bracing themselves for the possibility

In the wake of the SeaWorld attack, an expert explains how captivity drives orcas crazy -- and can turn them deadly

Everyone knows the story of Jonah. But my quest was to find evidence that man, gulped whole, had really survived

Researchers placed sensors on a blue whale in the wild to gather the data

Whales are intelligent, emotionally complex animals with individual personalities and ways of mourning

Japan, Norway and Iceland can continue to hunt, killing close to 1,500 animals a year

Fox News is demanding a pat on the back from mainstream media, so Jon Stewart is giving it to them

As Ahab drove the Pequod and its crew into oblivion, so our maniacal president ignores sane advice and surges forward into chaos.