The discovery of a 25-foot dead gray whale that washed ashore near the Huntington Beach pier on Friday, April 11, has sparked widespread concern among marine biologists and local residents alike. This ...

Jennette’s Pier reports that if the conditions allow, a team from Currituck County public works plans to pull the animal up higher on the beach berm ...

From mid-April through October, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, plays host to several whale species, including humpback, pilot and minke whales ... for safety on the ship deck, and sunglasses and ...

My first whale watch did not go well. At the time I was a student in meteorology at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine on Mount Desert Island. It was the Fourth of July — a holiday for ...

Humpback comeback: whales are reclaiming their territory in the Salish Sea, bringing new life to waters once left empty by ...

A rare minke whale was euthanized on Tuesday, April 8, after getting stuck in shallow waters near the Emeryville Marina in ...

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

An individual whale considered rare for the San Francisco Bay that has been observed repeatedly stranding itself near the East Bay this month will be euthanized ...

This incident follows the recent discovery of three dead gray whales in the same area within a two-week period. A rare juvenile minke whale that had repeatedly been seen stranded in the San ...

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

March 24, 2025 Minke whales, considered the smallest of the great, or baleen, whale family, can grow to more than 26 feet long and weigh as much as 14,000 pounds, according to NOAA. The whale in ...

Minke whales are rare in the San Francisco Bay. They have only been sighted five times, this individual included, since 2009.