Five gray whales have died in the greater Bay Area over the past week, bringing the region’s 2025 whale death toll to 14, officials announced Wednesday. Alyssa Goard reports the latest details.

The whale is officially called “Out of the Blue” and is 23 feet high. Created by artist Stephen J. Kesler, it is part of the public art collection managed by the Salt Lake City Arts Council.

Many Savannah-area residents were amazed and heartbroken to see a sperm whale washed up on the shore of Hilton Head Island. What may have caused this?

The 31-foot whale is believed to be a juvenile, and washed up on South Forest Beach severely emaciated. It likely drifted “hundreds of miles” before ending up on Hilton Head, according to the ...

A whale that beached itself on Hilton Head Island on May 4 has been euthanized, local officials announced. The whale, which officials have identified as a juvenile sperm whale, was sedated and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A gray whale washed up along the beach in Alameda on Monday. It's the fifth whale to die in the San Francisco Bay in less than a month. Four of the whales have been gray whales.

The whale marks the fourth gray whale to wash up in San Francisco Bay this year People view a dead gray whale that washed up on the shoreline of the Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda ...

The whale was first sighted swimming in a similar area on April 2. Around 2 p.m. Monday, the whale was temporarily stuck in a mud patch in a shallow area of the bay during low tide, the center said.

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.

A small whale, possibly a minke whale, has been drawing crowds in Long Beach after being spotted swimming around the harbor for consecutive days. Mekahlo Medina reports for the NBC4 News at 3 p.m ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed. Whales can be found in every ocean ...

For too long, Humpback whales' urinary contributions to the ocean have been overlooked. Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale ...