SANTA CRUZ, CA–When Jason Gedamke and Daniel Costa first went to Australia to record the sounds of dwarf minke whales, people told them they were wasting their time. There were very few reports of ...

A minke whale carcass, first spotted in January, was found near Bold Point Park in East Providence. Due to its advanced state of decomposition and location, the whale will be left to decompose ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

A pod of four transient killer whales — including a calf — was spotted Sunday, May 10, 2025, swimming out of the Yaquina River toward the ocean. It’s the latest in a steady stream of orca sightings ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Passengers aboard the Catallac and Legacy, operated by Davey’s Locker Whale Watching, experienced an extraordinary wildlife encounter on Tuesday morning. Just miles off the ...

A whale-watching excursion off the coast of Orange County got an up-and-close visit by a pair of friendly and “extremely curious” minke whales. The encounter happened Tuesday morning between the ...