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A whale thought to have died three years ago has suddenly reappeared off the coast of Massachusetts. Calvin, a North Atlantic ...
Another dead whale was discovered in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, the fifth creature found in the area in less than a month, officials said. The female gray whale drifted overnight on ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A dead whale was located in the San Francisco Bay last week, The Marine Mammal Center confirmed on Thursday. It is the sixth dead whale the agency has responded to this ...
Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...
As the whale hall at the Natural History Museum undergoes a deep clean and refresh, we take a peek behind the scenes at how our conservators have been cleaning one of the biggest specimens on display: ...
Bowhead whales migrate from their usual overwintering spot in the Bering Sea, north through the Bering Strait, to summer feeding grounds in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Recently, they’ve begun ...
Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.
The whale, named Calvin, had "severe entanglement wounds" when scientists last saw her Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously ...
(KRON) — Another dead whale has washed up at a San Francisco Bay beach, The Marine Mammal Center confirmed Monday. It is the fifth dead whale found in the bay over the past few weeks. The dead ...