Spotting orcas off the coast is always a treat  – but an “extremely rare” sighting Thursday, Jan. 30, has experts even more ecstatic. A pod that has never been documented off Orange County’s coast was ...

Biologists found significant blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by ...

A new project is underway to give Ms. Blue another life, this time enabling her to teach the community about the power of ...

The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

Discover the 10 Best U.S. Destinations for Whale Watching, where you can catch awe-inspiring views of humpbacks, orcas, and ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

The bittersweet New Year’s Day visit to central Puget Sound by J and K pods revealed both a new, apparently healthy calf had ...

Massachusetts politicians were fine with the economic costs of protecting endangered species – but only when it meant ...

Stay 500 yards away, about the length of five football fields. This regulation applies to vessels, aircraft, drones and ...

J35, also known as Tahlequah, is seen pushing her dead calf, J61, near Seattle, Wash., on Jan. 1. (NOAA Fisheries) The post detailing the sighting says observers "were not seeing much of the ...

Mothers nurse their calves for about a year because it ... People are encouraged to report right whale sightings to the Blue World Research Institute's hotline at 888-979-4253.