An image of a pair of southern elephant seal pups has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026 contest. Matty ...

Matty Smith from Australia has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026. Smith’s photograph - Rockpool ...

This month, researchers board a Sea Shepherd vessel in Antarctica's South Orkney Islands to study the overlap between krill ...

Researchers from Mystic Aquarium are heading to the icy tundras of Canada to study beluga breath. That’s the white-plume mixture of water cells, proteins and lung fluid that whales exhale when they ...

A three-year-old female North Atlantic right whale was found dead on a Virginia barrier island. The species is critically endangered, with only about 384 individuals and 70 reproductively active ...

The dead fin whale that was discovered on an Oregon beach Feb. 7 was a subadult that recently moved on from its mother but was not yet fully grown, officials said Feb. 11. Portland State University ...

The first gray whale of the year has arrived “unseasonably early” in San Francisco Bay, experts from the Marine Mammal Center told SFGATE this week, raising questions over the species’ behavior and ...

SUNSET BEACH, Ore. — Dozens of people on Sunset Beach caught a rare sight Sunday. A 46-foot fin whale washed ashore Saturday morning, already dead. Still, those who saw the whale said they were awed. ...

Humans were voyaging to remote islands off the north-west coast of Greenland 4500 years ago. This required them to cross over 50 kilometres of open water – one of the longest sea journeys made by ...

Readers take in Herman Melville's epic 1841 novel on a two-story replica of a whaling ship at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Every winter, literary legend Herman Melville’s legacy becomes palpable in ...

A 46-foot fin whale that washed up on the Oregon coast on Saturday has been dead for “quite some time,” officials with the Seaside Aquarium said. The dead whale appeared on Sunset Beach, near ...

SEASIDE, Ore. — A 46-foot-long fin whale washed ashore dead on an Oregon coast beach Saturday morning, Seaside Aquarium said. The whale was found north of Sunset Beach near Warrenton. The aquarium ...