Authorities confirmed reports that someone carved initials into the carcass of a gray whale that washed ashore on Whidbey Island earlier this week. In a statement, Cascadia Research, a group of researchers and activists who advocate for ecosystems in the Cascadia bioregion,

Hundreds descended on a quiet beach for what would likely be a once-in-a-lifetime viewing. Then the realities of a giant rotting whale carcass began to sink in.

This must be a snorkeler’s worst nightmare! But all animals have to poop somehow and that is as true for whale sharks as for any other species. The bigger the animal, the bigger the poop and whale

Heater didn’t own a wet suit, but he had grown up near the Pacific and served in the U.S. Navy. He closed up the escape room that he co-owns with his brother, loaded his German shepherd into his pickup, and made the 20-mile drive from Newport past lumber yards and thrift stores down to Yachats.

Researchers were tracking 13 whales in the Pacific Ocean and noticed they were fleeing as if an invisible predator was chasing them deep underwater.

A whale watching boat recently spotted a large group of orcas, also called killer whales, off the northern Channel Islands. Pacific Offshore Expeditions has run trips out of the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard for three seasons, spotting dozens of orcas. On any given day, they might see three to seven killer whales in a group.

The Gulf of California was once known as “the aquarium of the world.” But on a recent whale watching trip—and in an era where climate change is making its mark—our writer wonders if it still delivers.

“Not only did we capture such an amazing dataset, but we actually knew each of these whales,” says marine biologist David Gruber, who leads Project CETI, a nonprofit based partly in the Caribbean island Dominica dedicated to sperm whale research.

The skeleton, recovered from a 2015 Gold Beach stranding, will be suspended in a swimming pose in the center's east courtyard after a decade-long restoration project.