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 ...

Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers and others worry they may be witnessing another ...

(Kyodo) SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese port Monday for the Sea of Okhotsk to hunt 25 fin whales. The crew of the ship, which left Shimonoseki ...

The ocean is full of mystery and wonder, and there's so much to see. Many people enjoy whale watching along both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. However, one pod of whales off the coast of ...

Two North Atlantic right whales that are typically found off Cape Cod this time of year have been spotted swimming in the Bahamas, the first-ever recorded sighting of the critically endangered ...

It's everyone's favorite time of the week: the Cape Cod Times' weekly news roundup. We've gathered together the most read stories on the Cape Cod Times website from over the past week to help get ...

Two endangered North Atlantic right whales have gone where no right whale has gone before - at least not in recorded history - the Bahamas. The two right whales were seen by Captain Isaac Ellis ...

A previously undetected North Atlantic right whale calf and its mother were sighted in Cape Cod Bay on April 17. The Center for Coastal Studies based out of Provincetown was conducting an aerial ...