A bungling tourist was seen cruising along central reservation on her rented motorcycle. Footage shows the female foreigner without a helmet riding on the grassy strip that separates two lanes in ...

The group behind a project to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales in Nova Scotia has renewed its ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth ...

Scientists have revealed the cause of death for the small minke whale that was trapped for several days in a Long Beach harbor earlier this month, according to media reports. Officials from the ...

Two North Atlantic right whales, among the most at-risk marine mammals, were spotted swimming in the Bahamas on April 15, ...

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 ...

LONG BEACH, Wash. — Biologists are trying to determine what caused the death of a female gray whale that washed ashore a couple of days ago on the Washington coast. The more than 40-foot-long ...

The gray whale has the longest recorded migration, not just of a whale, but of any animal in the world. Gray whales have been recorded as traveling an incredible 14,000 miles from the Sea of ...

Languages: English. The rapid succession of strandings has stirred memories of April 2021, when four gray whales also died in the Bay Area within nine days. That year, scientists cited ship ...

Nobody knows where whale sharks, the biggest fish in the sea, are mating JAMESTOWN, St. Helena -- Whale sharks shouldn't be hard for scientists to find. They are enormous — they are the biggest ...

which sits 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). The designation Messier 77 comes from the galaxy's place in the famous catalog compiled by the French astronomer ...

The carcass of a gray whale washed up on Alameda's South Shore Beach on Monday morning. The cause of death is still being determined. This is the fifth whale to die in the Bay area in recent weeks.