It was a beautiful summer day in the arctic when Rae Wynn-Grant felt the bump of a beluga whale nudging her kayak up and down. Then another. And another. Nearly everywhere she looked, there were pale ...

In 2019, fishermen off northern Norway found an unusually tame beluga whale wearing a manmade harness marked with text linked to Saint Petersburg. The discovery quickly fueled speculation that the ...

The Airbus Beluga was created to move oversized aircraft sections between production sites across Europe and final assembly lines in France. Airbus first relied on the aging Super Guppy, but rising ...

SEASIDE, Ore. — Another dead gray whale has appeared on the Oregon coast, this time on Seaside Beach. According to the Seaside Aquarium, the 40-foot male whale was found on the south end of Seaside ...

At least six gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay from mid-March to early April 2026. These deaths follow a pattern over the past few years, and they are raising concerns among marine biologists ...

Researchers find increase in whale deaths in the bay, largely because of collisions with vessels on busy shipping route Gray whales have historically been a rare sight in the San Francisco Bay. They ...

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last ...

Scientists are learning that sperm whales communicate in ways that may mirror human language. A sperm whale is seen socializing with its pod near Dominica, where scientists have been studying how the ...

The animals might be entering the Bay in search of food as climate change disrupts traditional sources. They face huge risks from ships in the area. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey Nearly one-fifth of the ...

Spotting a gray whale in San Francisco Bay can be thrilling, but researchers now know it can be bad news for the marine mammals. Nearly 1 in 5 gray whales that enter the bay die there, researchers ...