As migrating gray whales are spotted off the Ventura coast, teams in Southern California have so far counted a record low number.

Tasmania. Every year, around 2000 marine mammals die in mass strandings worldwide. But this is not always for natural reasons.

Then, the northbound migration takes over ... But while sightings of killer whales have picked up, the number of gray whales dropped this fall, said Andrea Mills, education coordinator for ...

and killer whales' prey ranges from small fish to the largest whales on Earth. The fight species of baleen whales usually migrate and calve closer to the coast in shallow water, a haven of sorts ...

RANGE: Killer whales are found in all of the world's oceans and most seas. The Southern Resident population makes its home in the international inland waters of Puget Sound, Juan de Fuca Strait, Haro ...

A family was treated to a close encounter with a pair of orcas when the marine mammals swam right up to their boat near the ...

“One of the two individuals spotted recently could be the one seen in 2019,” Oizumi said. “Waters off Rausu may be in the migration range of killer whales.” ...

The young whales weighed as little as 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds), while the adults weighed 3 metric tons (3.3 U.S. tons). Despite their name, false killer whales are one of the largest members ...

Tasmania’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) said a group of 157 false killer whales were stranded on the beach on Wednesday morning. Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service ...

Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales that stranded on a remote beach on Australia's island state of Tasmania, officials said on Wednesday. Experts ...

More than 150 false killer whales have been stranded on a remote beach in Tasmania. It is the third mass stranding in the last five years on the west coast of the Australian island. Officials said ...