Assemblymember Gregg Hart will highlight planned legislation to establish a statewide California Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies program on Friday in Santa Barbara.

They support the diets of several whale species, including the largest animals to ever exist, seabirds, seals, and more. Humans have also developed a taste for krill. They come in the form of some ...

With large, grapefruit-sized eyes, it would make sense if humpback whales had decently strong eyesight. So, why do these intelligent cetaceans continue to become entangled in fishing gear?

Killer whales are known for their intelligence and power, even an inclination to sink yachts. Now, research is showing how they take down prey that few other animals can. Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of ...

The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself off the coast of Emeryville April 8. Scientists had thought she seemed ...

In what one marine scientist called a “remarkable” surprise, two North Atlantic right whales appear to have taken a tropical detour — surfacing in the Bahamas for the first time ever recorded.