A key official recently cast doubt on whether the Rice’s whale is its own species, a talking point used by the oil and gas industry. In 2009, this Rice's whale was killed by a vessel strike and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday as a whale surfaced nearby, its spout barely visible against the white caps. Until now, ...

Scientists have uncovered an astonishing new chapter in humpback whale migration: two whales were found to have traveled between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil, crossing more than 14,000 ...

BERLIN — A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort, after repeatedly becoming ...

It’s not uncommon for a gray whale to turn up on Oregon’s beaches. But a blue whale is different. They live primarily in the deep ocean and when they die, their bodies tend to sink. So, when this ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...

A fin whale stranded on a Samish Island beach near Bellingham died Tuesday morning, bringing Washington state’s whale death toll to 18 so far this year, researchers said. The male is the first fin ...

Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. — A gray whale found near Ocean Shores has added to a growing number of deaths across Washington this year, as researchers point to an ongoing pattern affecting the species. A team ...

At least six gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay from mid-March to early April 2026. These deaths follow a pattern over the past few years, and they are raising concerns among marine biologists ...

A young gray whale that stunned southwest Washington residents by swimming about 20 miles up the Willapa River this week has died, according to Cascadia Research Collective. In a Facebook update ...

“Not only did we capture such an amazing dataset, but we actually knew each of these whales,” says marine biologist David Gruber, who leads Project CETI, a nonprofit based partly in the Caribbean ...