The juvenile sperm whale that washed up on Hilton Head Island Saturday evening has been laid to rest 10 feet under the sand. A crew of roughly 25 performed a necropsy on the animal Monday. The ...

A dead whale is stranded on the beach at Kirby Cove in Marin County, one of several whales that have been found dead in or near the San Francisco Bay over the last week, scientists said. (Marjorie ...

The whale marks the fourth gray whale to wash up in San Francisco Bay this year. It comes less than two weeks after four whales washed up in the San Francisco Bay in a week-and-a-half span, ...

If you see a stranded dolphin or whale, do not push it back into the water, as biologists say it’s likely sick and will wash up somewhere else. Instead, call 843-410-7990 to alert the LMMN ...

Why do whales wash up on beaches? Like the beached whale on Hilton Head Island, live whales usually only beached themselves if they’re sick, injured, or in otherwise poor health.

Since 2016 an elevated number of humpback whale deaths have occurred on the Atlantic coast, ... "When an animal is so young, it's not normal for them to wash up dead," said Asmutis-Silvia.

Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast expanse of the southern ...

The six whales washed up between May 21 and 28. The first, a yearling gray whale, washed up in Bolinas, in Marin County, on May 21. A partial necropsy that was conducted May 23 was inconclusive and ...

Many Savannah-area residents were amazed and heartbroken to see a sperm whale washed up on the shore of Hilton Head Island. What may have caused this?

The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on New Zealand’s Pitt Island. Another discovery was made at an offshore island in the 1950s, and the bones of a third were found on Chile ...