Whale watching and numerous other activities highlight the 40th “Whale of a Day” at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center.

The marine mammal — an infrequent visitor to the shores of the Emerald Isle — was spotted in the Waterford Estuary on the ...

For too long, Humpback whales' urinary contributions to the ocean have been overlooked. Photograph By Martin Van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale ...

The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center is probing the death of a female gray whale that washed ... tag the animal and take pictures to identify it. It washed ashore the next day.

On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long juvenile fin whale that ...

Throughout the course of the day, the whale traveled up the coastline, passing a fishing boat, a ferry and a kayaker, occasionally changing directions. Photos ... to the National Oceanic and ...