Whale beaching and stranding are also common during this period, as the country sees several strandings a year.

An annual count of whales and dolphins is underway, with people across the motu keeping an eye out for sea mammals - big and ...

In a world full of bad news, there’s been good news in whale conservation. Many of the great whales are coming back. In fact, ...

Once a hotspot for commercial whaling, a section of WA coast has become a sanctuary for newborn southern right whale calves. But the population is still struggling to recover.

Bay Area researchers from SETI and UC Davis captured a rare sight: humpback whales blowing bubble rings — like smoke rings — while calmly approaching humans. It’s the first time scientists have ...

A pod of northern right whale dolphins was spotted near the Channel Islands, off the Southern California coast, drone footage shows. This footage was captured by Eli Parnes-Katz, also known as ...

Two whales, along with dolphins and sea lions, recently washed ashore in Long Beach, the latest victims of a toxic domoic acid outbreak caused by a harmful algal bloom spreading along the Southern ...

And she listed the many private and public organizations and departments with which she and her team partnered along the way.

It’s unusual for right whales to travel around the southern tip of Florida and into the Gulf, and it’s also unusual for two adult females to travel together, said Julie Albert, with the Blue ...

More than 75 endangered North Atlantic right whales, about 20 percent of the total population, were spotted off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine this week, prompting officials to warn boaters ...

Scientists had believed Southern right whales have a lifespan of about 70 years, but a new study shows that endangered mammals can live twice as long as they had thought. The study found these ...

Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science Advances. Some of these whales ...