The once-booming population that passed California twice a year has cratered because of retreating sea ice. A new kind of ...

Thousands of gray whales swim past Ventura each year on their southbound and northbound migration On the southbound trip this year, one longtime Southern California count reported fewer whales and ...

Whale watching in Washington is some of the best in the world, offering the opportunity to spot various species like ...

A group of gray whales that spends its summer on the Oregon coast is shrinking, with young whales on track to be around 5 feet shorter than their elders, a new study finds. In total, more than 14,000 ...

The water off the coast of Point Vicente quivered in the distance with little leaping bits of life. At least, that’s what they looked like to the naked eye. “They’re common dolphin,” said Alisa ...

Each year, thousands of the gray whales make an annual migration past Ventura, heading south from Arctic waters to the ...

Two gray whales washed up dead in the San Francisco Bay near Richmond over the past week, bringing the year’s total whale deaths to 22 in and around the bay, according to the Marine Mammal Center. The ...

Gray whales have been veering off their normal routes along the West Coast and swimming under the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay in unprecedented numbers. Using thousands of photographs of ...

NANTUCKET – A gray whale was spotted off the Massachusetts coast recently in what experts call an "incredibly rare event." The species has been extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for more than 200 years.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Six gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay in just the past week alone, bringing the total number of stranded whales to 15 so far this year as authorities rush to figure out ...

Teams in Southern California have counted a record low number of migrating gray whales and calves so far this year. The whales have started their return trek between their summer feeding grounds in ...