As the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to accelerate, trees, plants and even the ocean’s tiny plankton ...

A team examined the whale on the beach. The death comes amid a severe domoic acid outbreak. A young humpback whale recently washed up on a Ventura beach, one of several found dead during a severe ...

At a close distance, they observed numerous orcas chasing down a young blue whale, that after putting up a brave fight, ultimately succumbed to the onslaught. It was described as “a once in a ...

harvesting the whale oil to burn in lamps, and using the baleen in their mouths to shape women’s corsets and parasols. The grays were given the name "devil fish" for the fight they would put up ...

Another dead whale was discovered in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, the fifth creature found in the area in less than a month, officials said. The female gray whale drifted overnight on ...

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.