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

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.

A gray whale found dead along an Oxnard-area beach has been towed offshore after a brief exam, officials said. Channel Islands Harbor Patrol said the dead whale washed up on the south end of Silver Strand Beach.

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.

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.

A new approach to better assessing whale population data has emerged, led by a research team of marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and statisticians from Cal Poly.

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.