A deep-sea discovery turns frightening as a submarine crew finds aggressive sixgill sharks feasting on a whale carcass and ...

Nobody knows where whale sharks are mating. But scientists suspect it may be happening in the waters around St. Helena. It's ...

Citizen scientists at the Point Vicente Interpretive Center are documenting a historic low in Gray Whale sightings, but the ...

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California crabbers are experimenting with a new fishing method that allows them to stay ...

A dead gray whale measuring about 50 feet in length washed up on the shore in Huntington Beach Friday afternoon, the city’s fire department Marine Safety Division said in a social media post on ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

People on a whale watching expedition were treated to a once-in-a-lifetime experience on Sunday, April 6, as a humpback whale rose out of the water within feet of their boat. The curious whale, ...

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — A rare sighting along the Gulf Coast on Saturday as two endangered North Atlantic Right Whales were spotted and reported to Oceana. This is only the fifth time ...

VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. — There’s new hope in the J Pod of endangered Southern Resident orca whales. A new calf has arrived! On Apr. 6, Center for Whale Research biologist Mark Malleson spotted ...

A rare juvenile minke whale that had repeatedly been seen stranded in the San Francisco Bay was euthanized Tuesday after officials determined the mammal had little chance for survival. The ...

A whale has died after becoming stranded near a Scots beach. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) were made aware of a sperm whale in Ettrick Bay, on the Isle of Bute, on Tuesday, April 8.