A local resident says a prayer for a dead gray whale that washed ashore at Laguna San Ignacio in 2020. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Recently, while sailing with friends on San Francisco Bay, I ...

Animal rights activists are calling on Canadian authorities to save the lives of 30 beluga whales who are under threat of being euthanized by a defunct marine amusement park. Once upon a time, up to 1 ...

Diving in a kelp forest in Monterey Bay recently, I watched a tubby 200-pound harbor seal follow a fellow diver, nibbling on his flippers. The diver, a graduate student, was using sponges to collect ...

Humans have played a role in virtually every instance where scientists could determine a cause of death in North Atlantic right whales between 2003-2018, according to past news coverage. Credit: File ...

VENTOR CITY, New Jersey -- John Gowdy has been a lifeguard along the Jersey Shore for decades and doesn't recall ever seeing a whale in the ocean. But in January, after another 30-foot humpback washed ...

America’s lobster fishery is getting close to the date when it will have to contend with new rules designed to try to save a species of whale from extinction. The North Atlantic right whale numbers ...

A right whale and its calf swim along the Atlantic coast. Right whales move south to the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida in winter to give birth to calves. The whales are among the rarest in the world ...