Imagine standing on a muddy riverbank 50 million years ago and seeing a strange creature lumbering by—part crocodile, part ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

Whales can also help cycle nutrients in the ocean when they disturb the seabed as they feed. Gray whales ( Eschrichtius ...

Of the four whales that have washed up on Orange and Los Angeles county beaches this year, two had high levels of domoic acid poisoning confirmed in their systems, leading marine mammal experts to ...

Experts from The Marine Mammal Center and partners at the California Academy of Sciences responded to a 36-foot dead female gray whale at Black Sands Beach in Golden Gate National Recreation Area ...

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

Officials called the latest outbreak one of the largest, saying it has led to illness or death of thousands of marine mammals and birds in recent months. Whales found dead along Southern ...

The whale marks the fourth dead gray whale and fifth whale overall to wash up in the San Francisco Bay this year, according to the Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The latest ...

On April 2, a deceased adult male gray whale was found floating east of Angel Island; its cause of death is also not known, according to the Marine Mammal Center. Then, a subadult male gray whale ...