The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself off the coast of Emeryville April 8. Scientists had thought she seemed ...

Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers and others worry they may be witnessing another ...

EMERYVILLE — A juvenile whale who beached itself several times since it was first spotted in the San Francisco Bay last week was euthanized Tuesday after a team from the Marine Mammal Center ...

"While not the outcome we hoped for, it was in the best interest of this whale," the Marine Mammal Center said Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University ...

A Bigg’s killer whale calf is seen swimming alongside its mom in the Salish Sea off Washington. Caio Ribeiro Eagle Wing Tours / Pacific Whale Watch Association A killer whale has become a first ...

JAMESTOWN, St. Helena — (AP) — Whale sharks shouldn’t be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest fish in the sea and perhaps the biggest fish to have ever lived.

A large group of humpback whales was spotted in the Santa Barbara Channel. Passengers got a particularly clear view of a basking shark off Ventura. Boats recently reported spotting a large group ...

A dead whale washed ashore Friday, April 11, near the Huntington Beach Pier. A team from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center responded early Saturday and a necropsy was performed, said Glenn Gray ...

A juvenile minke whale stranded multiple times in the San Francisco Bay was euthanized due to its deteriorating health. The whale, rarely seen in the area, exhibited signs of severe sunburn ...

Tourists and researchers witnessed a pod of orcas hunt and kill an endangered pygmy blue whale. © Robert Pittman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Every summer ...

People on a whale watching expedition were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime experience on Sunday, April 6, as a humpback whale rose out of the water within feet of their boat. The curious whale, ...