Taken together, the deaths have raised the specter of past “unusual mortality events” that caused whales to die in ...

A minke whale that had been swimming in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor for most of the past week was found dead Sunday morning, ...

A rare juvenile minke whale repeatedly stranded in the San Francisco Bay was euthanized as officials say the mammal had ...

Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. A rarely spotted juvenile minke whale that stranded itself on a mudflat in the San Francisco Bay near ...

A minke whale that spent the last week swimming in Long Beach Harbor despite efforts by marine wildlife experts to reroute it back to deeper waters died this weekend, officials confirmed.

The Marine Mammal Center/X A rare minke whale had to be euthanized on Tuesday, April 8, after getting stuck in shallow waters near the Emeryville Marina in California's San Francisco Bay.

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Earlier on Tuesday, the minke whale once again stuck itself in mud at low tide in the same area. The Marine Mammal Center officials made the decision to euthanize the whale after determining that ...

What appears to be a rare visit by a minke whale to the San Francisco Bay has become fraught with danger as the animal got stranded Tuesday on a shallow mudflat in Emeryville. Experts with the ...

EMERYVILLE, California (KGO) — A rare juvenile minke whale that became stranded in an offshore mudflat in Emeryville on Tuesday had to be humanely euthanized after officials determined the ...