The man noticed the whale had already been sliced open and so decided to jump in, possibly owing to the fact he had been drinking. He stayed within the decaying blubber for more than two hours and ...

Learn more about the recent discovery of this spade-toothed whale and what an international research team uncovered about it.

A whale found near Bold Point Park in upper Narragansett Bay has been dead for four months, its carcass having originally ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

A sperm whale beached in Beaufort County, SC over the weekend was euthanized by officials overnight Sunday. Crews worked May ...

Thousands of gray whales are migrating past the Oregon coast in poor condition, with record-low calf numbers and visible signs of starvation. Researchers link the crisis to changing Arctic feeding ...

Gray whale strandings, which occur during the spring months when whales migrate past the Washington coast, are happening at a ...

A team from the Marine Mammal Center took initial skin and blubber samples via a research vessel on Friday morning, April 18, and identified the whale as an adult female. As of Monday, April 21 ...

On Friday, scientists took a skin and blubber sample from that whale, and determined that it was an adult female. Cal Academy and East Bay Regional Parks arranged to have the dead gray whale towed ...