A 36-foot emaciated sea creature washed up on a California beach, and now researchers want to know how it died. On March 29, ...

A female gray whale washed up dead on Black Sands Beach, a tucked away part of the Marin Headlands, on Sunday — an ...

The Makah is a marine-based Tribe. Their history and identity are tied to the sea—as are their traditional foods.

The Makah Tribe has formally requested permission to resume its traditional whale hunt this July. A permit application is out for public comment.

Whale Watching Week means better views and nicer weather to see gray whales. However, gray whale calf numbers are at historic ...

Teams in Southern California have counted a record low number of migrating gray whales and calves so far this year. The whales have started their return trek between their summer feeding grounds ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

Animals form the circulatory system of the ... from higher latitudes to lower latitudes: blue whales, fin whales, gray whales, humpback whales, and North Atlantic and southern right whales.

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.