For decades, whale watching has been a seasonal ritual along the Sonoma Coast, drawing locals to wind-swept bluffs, binoculars in hand. Now the pastime has earned national notice: Travel + Leisure has ...

A massive dead humpback whale that washed ashore in Newport Beach earlier this week was towed out to sea Friday after drifting back offshore overnight, and marine scientists used the rare stranding to ...

Biologists trying to determine what killed a juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore on the Balboa Peninsula this week spent Thursday morning collecting valuable samples from its carcass. The ...

A whale-sized tragedy has washed up on a SoCal beach. Beachgoers spotted the body of a gnarly, rotting 10-ton humpback whale lying on Newport Beach Wednesday. The body of a 30-foot whale washed ashore ...

A dead whale washed up on the sand in Newport Beach on Wednesday, with authorities assessing how the mammal died — and how to get it off of the popular beach. The 27-foot whale was first spotted ...

Scientists will conduct a necropsy to determine the cause of death, marking the second right whale fatality documented in just two weeks. A dead North Atlantic right whale stranded on a barrier island ...

South of Santa Cruz, where coastal waters meet the open Pacific, are the deep waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It's home to an amazing array of creatures: over 300 marine mammal ...

Feb. 13 (UPI) --A North Atlantic right whale washed ashore on a Virginia barrier island, according to federal scientists, marking the second whale of the endangered species to be found dead off the ...

VIRGINIA - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has responded to a young North Atlantic right whale found dead and washed up on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. NOAA says the Virginia Aquarium ...

AVON, N.C. (WAVY) – A 4-year-old male North Atlantic right whale known as “Division” (#5217) was found dead off the coast of Avon, N.C., on Jan. 27. NOAA Fisheries reported the whale died as a result ...

The Australian Right Whale Research Study receives funding from the Minderoo Foundation and in kind support from many organisations and volunteers. For decades, southern right whales have been ...

A North Atlantic Right Whale carcass was found floating offshore of Avon, North Carolina, on Jan. 27. The whale, named "Division," had been partially disentangled from heavy rope in December but was ...