Blue whales are not only the largest animal on earth today but the largest known animal ever to have lived on earth. The ...

The whales are now headed north. In just the last two weeks, three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay, one of which ...

The cooler, nutrient-rich water fuels blooms of tiny phytoplankton, jumpstarting the food web in Monterey Bay, from small shrimp-like krill all the way to giant whales. When the winds create an ...

These food reserves are vital when they travel south to the warmer waters of Mexico, where they don’t tend to eat much at all ...

A rare juvenile minke whale repeatedly stranded in the San Francisco Bay was euthanized as officials say the mammal had ...