This is the moment a nine-meter humpback whale was rescued after becoming stranded on a beach in Australia. The 10-tonne marine giant was freed and guided back into the ocean off Forster on April 14, ...

The gray whale, which some locals affectionately named Willapa Willy, was found on Saturday afternoon after first being spotted swimming up the Willapa River last week. By Livia Albeck-Ripka The young ...

There are only around 380 North Atlantic right whales still living Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App team in 2025. Her work has previously ...

A group of wealthy Germans have pooled funds in a last-ditch effort to save a stranded humpback whale off the country’s northern coast. The 12-tonne mammal, which has been nicknamed “Timmy” by several ...

Sperm whales: They’re just like us. An international team of researchers, including marine biologists and linguists, reports that it has detected signs of a “highly complex” phonetic alphabet in the ...

Scientists who recorded whale songs learned that the New York Bight, at the entrance to the harbor, attracts sei whales. Ships pose a risk to them. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. Today ...

Saturday's tragic discovery of a dead juvenile gray whale in the Willapa River in Pacific County points to a bigger crisis. Washington’s gray whale population has dropped by more than 50% in the past ...

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last ...

Researchers find increase in whale deaths in the bay, largely because of collisions with vessels on busy shipping route Gray whales have historically been a rare sight in the San Francisco Bay. They ...