It's migration season. Find out where to go to spot humpbacks, orcas, dolphins and more on the Monterey County coast.

A North Pacific right whale, believed to be one of only 32 surviving individuals of the critically endangered species, was spotted, tracked and photographed by a Monterey Bay Whale Watch vessel.

Whale watching in Santa Cruz has traditionally focused on the migrating gray whales that steam past Monterey Bay twice a year — southbound to Mexico in the fall, and northbound in the spring ...

Monterey >> With the arrival of spring comes the arrival of the killer whales to Monterey Bay. An attack last week on a gray whale calf by a group of 17 killer whales signified the beginning of ...

Unveiled at a June 18 ceremony, the restored whale statue at Tyrrell Park is now enhanced with a life-sized calf to tell a ...

A pod of humpback whales encountered a group of killer whales during feeding time off the coast of California. On June 24, a group “lucky enough” to spot nine orcas was even able to identify them, ...

Rush of humpback whales appear in Monterey Bay 03:02. More than a dozen humpback whales are frolicking in the waters of Monterey Bay south of San Francisco.

An adult female humpback whale was spotted “launching herself out of the water” before giving boaters a show with four “huge chin slaps, and some pectoral fin slapping” near the boat, according to a ...

Alisa Schulman-Janiger, a whale researcher with Monterey Bay Whale Watch, saw it on three occasions, on Oct. 11, 13 and 20. Before that, she’s hasn’t seen a sperm whale in the Monterey Bay in ...

Colleen Talty, a marine biologist with Monterey Bay Whale Watch who saw the killer whales earlier this week, said everyone was excited because of the rarity of the sighting.

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

A North Pacific right whale, believed to be one of only 32 surviving individuals of the critically endangered species, was photographed by a Monterey Bay Whale Watch vessel on Sunday March 5, 2023.