Necropsy response efforts to figure out what is going on has been “challenging.” Six gray whales have died in the San Francisco Bay area in just the past week alone, bringing the total number of ...

During an Oct. 4 whale-watching tour west of Sooke in the Juan de Fuca Strait, passengers got a front-row seat to a ...

Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again. At least 70 whales have perished since the start of the year in the shallow, protected lagoons of Mexico's Baja California peninsula where the animals ...

The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center is probing the death of a female gray whale that washed up on Black Sands Beach in the Marin Headlands. The decomposing 36-foot whale carcass was the first ...

AFTER a spate of killer whale attacks off the coast of Portugal, a crack team of orca hunters are vowing to help end the violence out at sea. A pod of killer whales have rammed three yachts in the ...

Now, scientists reveal why killer whales attack boats – and it turns out we ... including the calves of humpback and grey whales. When hunting larger prey, orcas take turns ramming their victim at 35 ...

A spout briefly skimming the surface of the water. A gray dorsal hump blending in with San Francisco Bay. A fluke lifting into the air, only to disappear in a flash. Gray whales are some of the most ...

Researchers have identified a fascinating behavior in killer whales, aka orcas: they sometimes offer to share their prey with humans. And while the orcas haven't gone on the record to confirm it, it's ...