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 ...

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However, marine animals that spend most of their time underwater, such as dolphins and whales, are particularly challenging ...

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.

“It’s displaying signs that are abnormal for a whale to continue to beach itself consecutively like this over a week’s time.” A minke whale — possibly the same species as the animal ...

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.

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 ...

An entangled gray whale, trapped 100 feet underwater, was freed in a life-saving mission involving drones, underwater cameras ...

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 ...

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 ...