Whale (animal)

(WGN-AM)- Visitors now can touch one of the Shedd Aquarium's prized beluga whales, but it comes with a price: $200. That is what the Shedd is charging per person for a new, limited program that allows member of the public to get into a whale pool and...

ZeroTrash illustrates litter impact on oceans ZeroTrash was recently asked by the Miocean Foundation, an Orange County nonprofit that focuses on pollution removal at local beaches, to highlight its "1st Saturday" community clean-up efforts in O.C....

Opponents of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic are making a last-ditch effort to convince the Obama administration to impose the same kind of moratorium on oil and gas development that it did on major commercial fishing in the Far......

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's planned mission this winter against the Japanese whaling effort has hit a snag because Capt. Paul Watson and his first officer are experiencing visa issues and so far are not being allowed into Australia. Outposts.....

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society held a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday and unveiled the Ady Gil: a sleek and speedy trimaran that is expected to bolster the group's effort against Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean below Australia.......

The Animal Planet program â??Whale Warsâ?? is already one of the more controversial shows on television, chronicling the travails of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as it pits its motley volunteer navy against Japanese whalers hunting in the ic...

The march of offshore oil development into the Arctic has been given a boost by the federal Minerals Management Service, which approved Shell Offshore Inc.'s plan to drill exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska. Conservationists.......

Whaling ships from Japan left today for Antarctic waters on an annual five-month voyage in pursuit of about 1,000 minke whales and a small number of endangered fin whales. The seasonal hunts, during the Antarctic summer, are highly controversial. They're....

A juvenile humpback whale entangled in hundreds of feet of heavy rope off the Hawaii coast was being tracked by marine experts Wednesday. "The entanglement is life-threatening," said Ed Lyman, marine mammal response manager for the Hawaiian Islands...

In celebration of the Pacific gray whales' southbound migration and to herald the beginning of the whale-watching season, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium will be holding its annual Whale Fiesta this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Co-sponsored by the American...

A Japanese whaling ship crashed into a boat owned by the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society off the coast of Antarctica on Wednesday, destroying the vessel. The Japanese ship had been following another of the Sea Shepherd’s boats,...

Blue whales have changed their songs. It's the same old tune, but the pitch of the blues is mysteriously lower -- especially off the coast of California where, local researchers say, the whales' voices have dropped by more than half......