Whale (animal)

A SeaWorld Orlando animal trainer was killed this afternoon during an accident at SeaWorld's Shamu Stadium, park and law enforcement officials said. Dawn Brancheau, a 40-year-old with extensive training experience, drowned following a popular Dine with...

Upon catching glimpse of the whale skull's giant teeth, the researchers at first thought they had come across elephant tusks....

TOKYO — An anti-whaling activist from New Zealand who boarded a Japanese whaling ship as part of a protest in February pleaded guilty Thursday to charges including trespassing and destruction of property, but denied that he committed assault. Sea...

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia has announced it will take Japan to the International Court of Justice in a major escalation of its campaign to prevent whaling in the Antarctic Ocean. The decision to take legal action against Australia's important...

A new genetic study could result in restrictions on where the Makah tribe can hunt for gray whales, prompting a review of the results by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is now conducting its own new gray whale research. The...

A team of animal care specialists from SeaWorld cut off two ropes and removed more than 100 pounds of fishing net and other gear from a gray whale that has now returned to the ocean. Wildlife biologist Joe Cordaro with the National Marine Fisheries...

There's a remarkable transformation happening in the waters of Southeast Alaska this time of year. All kinds of wildlife are emerging from winter -- and they're hungry for a good meal. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists John Moran...

The whale caught in a crab pot line near the Washington coast has taken off. A biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective says when rescuers reached the site Friday morning the juvenile humpback was gone. Erin Falcone in the organization's...

DANA POINT -- The whale that has been lingering around Dana Point Harbor since Monday has died. The gray whale washed up on Doheny State Beach at about 4 p.m. on Friday, sources say. A weakened "Lilly" the whale appeared to be laboring and clinging to...

TOKYO — Japan said Tuesday that it would staunchly defend its research hunt that kills hundreds of whales a year, a day after Australia filed an international lawsuit arguing that the cull does not qualify for a scientific exemption to......

TOKYO — Prosecutors demanded a two-year prison sentence Thursday for an activist who boarded a Japanese vessel in the Antarctic Ocean to try to prevent it from hunting whales. New Zealander Peter Bethune climbed onto the Shonan Maru 2 from......

TOKYO — Nations will next week consider whether to sanction commercial whale hunts for the first time in a quarter-century, a compromise to coax Japan into ending an annual cull of hundreds of the sea mammals in a sanctuary in......