Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, Sc. (WTOC) - A sperm whale that washed ashore on Hilton Head Island on Sunday has been euthanized. According to Hilton Head Island’s Facebook page, experienced marine mammal teams ...

A woman wearing a Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network T-shirt pours water on the beached whale on May 4, 2025. Water and sheets were used to keep the whale cool and moist in the summer heat.

Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded whale rights and even legal personhood. A pod of sperm whales swims ...

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) applauded President Trump’s plan to use federal lands to build affordable public housing around the country. Gallego, in a Wednesday letter, commended the formation ...

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ILWACO, Wash. — A gray whale was found dead on the beach near Cape Disappointment Saturday. Cape Disappointment is in Ilwaco on the Long Beach Peninsula on the southwest corner of Washington.

LONG BEACH, Wash. — Biologists are trying to determine what caused the death of a female gray whale that washed ashore a couple of days ago on the Washington coast. The more than 40-foot-long ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth ...

The Trump Administration is eliminating a 2024 rule that places environmental protection on par with mining, ranching, and timber cutting on lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.