This year’s whale deaths are outpacing the high numbers seen during the unusual mortality event from 2019 to 2023.

This week off the coast of Dana Point, lucky travelers aboard a Dana Wharf Whale Watching vessel spotted two humpback whales, one gray whale, a bottlenose dolphin, common dolphin and mola mola.

In the U.S., there is no better state for whale watching than California. Each winter, an estimated 24,000 gray whales travel 6,000 miles from the chilly waters of Alaska to the balmy bays of ...

Unprecedented numbers of gray whales are being spotted in San Francisco Bay, and nobody really knows why. Experts only have educated guesses about the prevalence of porpoises, dolphins and ...

A gray whale swims into Los Angeles Harbor on Feb. 23, 2021. It’s not unusual for gray whales to stay in the harbor for a few weeks in February and March before migrating farther north toward ...

At times, a migrating gray whale or two may hang out near San Miguel or Santa Rosa islands to feed, Mills said. But it is typically just a couple and juveniles. This time, a dozen or more adult ...

A humpback whale was sighted in the Cape Cod Canal on Nov. 20, near the eastern end of the scenic shortcut that connects Buzzards Bay to Cape Cod Bay.. In an email to the Times, U.S. Army Corps of ...

A humpback whale accidentally catches a harbor seal in its jaws while feeding in Washington's Strait of Juan de Fuca on Sept. 12. Author: Olivia Sullivan Published: 8:53 PM PDT September 13, 2024 ...

A battle-scarred male humpback whale named Frodo has completed the longest- known movement for his species, a new study says.. Between 2017 and 2018, the animal swam nearly 7,000 miles from Saipan ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A humpback whale was spotted in the mouth of the Columbia River near Warrenton, Oregon over the weekend.Warrenton Mayor Henry Balensifer shared footage of the sighting with KOIN ...

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 ...