A juvenile humpback whale was spotted caught in two sets of commercial crab gear southwest of Humboldt Bay on June 7.

After an official Unusual Mortality Event was declared over, scientists expected the population to rebound. Instead, they're ...

The humpback discovered in Huntington Beach wasn't observed before its death, but tests results showed significantly high ...

A mystery is brewing in the waters off the coast of San Francisco. It started last month, when a female gray whale washed up dead on Black Sands Beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. She ...

Michael Milstein, spokesperson for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s West Coast regional office, said test results showed the whale had high levels of domoic acid in its ...

Michael Milstein, spokesperson for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s West Coast regional office, said in a phone interview that the whale was found dead Sunday morning after ...

“This happens from time to time,” said Michael Milstein, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Usually they find their way out on their own.” In ...

Its wounds were healing, it had grown to about 300 pounds and there were no signs that the stabbing was going to have "lasting effects," Michael Milstein, a spokesperson for NOAA Fisheries West ...

A minke whale that was swimming in Long Beach Harbor earlier this month died from domoic acid poisoning associated with a toxic algal bloom that has stricken many other sea creatures, according to ...

“This happens from time to time,” said Michael Milstein, a spokesman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Usually they find their way out on their own.” In ...