So many people had shown up that Oregon State Police and other officials were asking people to avoid the area.

While beached whales are not rare in Oregon, it’s uncommon to see healthy whales wash up alive. In a cruel irony, had the ...

It felt like everyone in Oregon was watching and worrying after a young humpback whale was stranded Saturday on a beach north ...

In its wake, we examined whale entanglements along the West Coast. Entanglements occur when a human-made material — such as ...

A whale beached on the Oregon Coast last weekend. Here's what it takes to save a stranded whale and what happened to that ...

A juvenile humpback whale was euthanized nearly two days after it was discovered stranded in an entanglement of fishing line.

Bubble ring created by a humpback whale named Thorn. Credit: © Dan Knaub, The Whale Video Company. June 5, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the ...

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

A viral TikTok shows bystanders struggling to help a juvenile humpback whale stranded on the Oregon Coast as experts urge the public to stay back ...

The ocean is an incredible yet nerve-wracking world unto itself. Its unexplored depths are home to creatures still unknown to us, and the sea can be fickle and change unexpectedly. That is precisely ...

The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...

The whale was apparently tangled in lines from a crab pot. By the evening of Nov. 16, officials indicated there was little ...