Pigeon Point Lighthouse is basically the supermodel of lighthouses. It shows up in more photos than any other lighthouse in California. And for good reason – this thing is gorgeous. The white tower ...

The Edinburgh-based firm, Christian Salvesen, operated whale processing ports at the aptly named Leith Harbour at Stromness ...

The first to have been documented asking a question was Alex the parrot. Born in 1976 and living to 2007, Alex was an African ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

In an exclusive interview with Taste of Country Nights, Ella Langley admitted her biggest fear, and it's an odd one.

It's migration season. Find out where to go to spot humpbacks, orcas, dolphins and more on the Monterey County coast.

Whales continually inspire us with their immense size, complex social structures, and vital role in marine ecosystems.

A massive sea creature was spotted off the coast of California, leaving onlookers “excited.” On June 8, a group of boaters got the chance to encounter a blue whale — on World Oceans Day of all days, ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

Analysis of 20,000-year-old bone tools from Spain demonstrates that humans used whale remains from at least five large species, including sperm, fin, blue, and gray whales, for toolmaking.

In 2024, for instance, volunteers counted 224 gray whales traveling south and then 544 traveling north with 21 calves. During the southbound count this season, only 124 whales were tallied.