These New Year’s revelers celebrate the holiday a bit differently, from a sardine drop at midnight to lively street parades.

The number of Pacific gray whales decreased significantly during the most recent count to the lowest numbers since the 1970s, while the number of whale calves also hit its lowest numbers on record.

Trained Oregon State Park volunteers will be stationed at 14 sites along the Oregon Coast from 10 AM to 1 PM, Saturday, Dec.

Those hoping to catch a glimpse of a gray whale or two before the year’s end may be in luck, as Whale Watch Week will soon ...

Each year, gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) complete one of the most impressive journeys in the animal kingdom. They travel thousands of miles between their Arctic feeding grounds and the warmer ...

Poinsettias, A Favorite Of Backyard Gardeners, are now exhibiting their scarlet, petal-like bracts, just in time for the ...

New research says birth rates for gray whales are still low, likely because of climate change affecting their food sources.

The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center is probing the death of a female gray whale that washed up on Black Sands Beach in the Marin Headlands. The decomposing 36-foot whale carcass was the first ...

Thousands of gray whales swim past Ventura each year on their southbound and northbound migration On the southbound trip this year, one longtime Southern California count reported fewer whales and ...

It's the ninth such whale death in the region this year. A dead gray whale washed ashore California's San Francisco Bay Area on Monday -- the ninth one this year, scientists said. The dead whale was ...

The number may represent just a fraction of the actual death toll, experts said. The stranding of 70 gray whales along the United States' west coast is considered to be an "unusual mortality event" by ...