Whale (animal)

A year ago, Vic and I went whale-watching with the Orange County chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology on one of Capt. Dave Anderson's Dolphin Safari cruises out of Dana Point Harbor. It was the best whale-watching trip we had ever been on. When...

HONOLULU — Officials said Monday they successfully cut loose hundreds of yards of plastic rope that had been caught in the mouth of a young humpback whale off Hawaii. Ed Lyman, the marine mammal response manager for the Hawaiian Islands......

So much for recent claims by Greenpeace that an end to Japanese whaling might be in sight because of its high cost in a bad economy. Japan's foreign minister, Katsuya Okada, this week stated the country's new government will not......

It's decision time on drilling for oil and gas in America's Arctic, and a group of Native Alaskan whalers have joined forces with a broad range of conservation groups to try and halt Shell Offshore Inc.'s latest plan to conduct......

Television game show host Bob Barker knew anti-whaling work could be dangerous even before his $5 million donation to a conservation group, but he was shocked to hear about Wednesday's violent crash between a Japanese whaling ship and one of......

The gray whale that raised such a stir off Everett's waterfront has vanished without a trace. The whale appeared in the Snohomish River and swam upstream and downstream most of Saturday morning and afternoon. It was first spotted near the Everett Marina...

The whale that a cruise ship collided with and brought into port in Vancouver, B.C. appears to be a fin whale, a threatened species in Canada. It wasn't until the ship docked Saturday that the captain and crew noticed the whale lodged in the bow of the...

An enthusiastic crowd responded Sunday to a rallying cry to raise awareness of and declare opposition to the resumption of commercial whaling.. More than 75 people gathered at Main Beach in Laguna to sign petitions and videotape a plea to President Obama...

A conservation group's boat had its bow sheared off and was taking on water Wednesday after it was struck by a Japanese whaling ship in the frigid waters off Antarctica, the group said. The boat's six crew members were safely......

Conservationists monitoring Japanese whalers in the Antarctic said that they remained committed to protecting whales despite a dangerous clash this week that resulted in the sinking of one of their boats. Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd...

SEATTLE — A little over a year after researchers feared that a drop in the Northwest's endangered killer whale population meant disaster, the number of orcas has bounced back with six new babies and no whales lost. Though scientific evidence......

A San Diego SeaWorld spokesman says killer whale shows in San Diego have been suspended Wednesday after a trainer was killed by an orca at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida A SeaWorld employee died Wednesday afternoon during the killer whale attack, at...