An aging wooden sculpture of a whale at the Picton Powerhouse Reserve on Wairau Road has been removed. Council’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Manager Nicola Neilson said the wooden sculpture was rotten ...

Biologists trying to determine what killed a juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore on the Balboa Peninsula this week spent Thursday morning collecting valuable samples from its carcass. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A dead humpback whale washed ashore along a popular stretch of Newport Beach on Wednesday afternoon, drawing crowds of onlookers ...

A new study shows that as humpback whale populations recover from past whaling, older males are gaining a major advantage in reproduction. Early in the recovery, breeding groups were dominated by ...

A dead humpback whale who washed ashore in Newport Beach earlier this week was washed back out to sea with the rising tides Thursday night. On Friday morning, scientists located the whale and were ...

Humpback whales appeared to make an early return from migration in February — and one captain in Santa Barbara captured the moment on video, sparking excitement in the marine wildlife online community ...

A dead humpback whale washed ashore along a popular stretch of Newport Beach on Wednesday afternoon, drawing crowds of onlookers and prompting safety warnings as authorities work to determine how the ...

Officials say the whale could roll in the surf, posing a danger to beachgoers Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty A 9-foot, 11-ton humpback whale washed ashore in California's Newport Beach ...

New research from the University of St Andrews published in Current Biology has shown that the role of age in male humpback whale reproduction has changed as populations recover from centuries of ...

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