On average, they only eat 0.4% of their body weight per day during the winter, instead relying on the fat that they have stored up during the ... their calves from killer whales.

Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators.

LONG BEACH, Wash. — Biologists are trying to determine what caused the death of a female gray whale that washed ashore a ...

Humpback whale populations have been increasing throughout many of their ranges since a final moratorium on commercial ...

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.

A toxin released by one of the largest algae blooms on record off the Southern California coast was linked to the deaths of a ...

The more than 40-foot-long whale washed up on Long Beach, about four miles north of Seaview. Biologists spent all day Monday trying to determine how the whale died. "I received a report she was ...

Unlike many other animals, killer whales have exceptionally long periods of juvenile dependency, with offspring staying close to their mothers for years or even decades. This extended period of ...

The line is deeply embedded in the flesh of the whale. (Photo Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries) (CN) — Another portion of California’s coast will close to Dungeness crab ... California must authorize the ...

The other three were gray whales, the first of which — a 36-foot-long female — washed up at Black Sands Beach in the Marin Headlands March 30. Its cause of death remains unknown. On April 2 ...