Sperm whales: They’re just like us. An international team of researchers, including marine biologists and linguists, reports that it has detected signs of a “highly complex” phonetic alphabet in the ...
The gray whale, which some locals affectionately named Willapa Willy, was found on Saturday afternoon after first being spotted swimming up the Willapa River last week. By Livia Albeck-Ripka The young ...
A juvenile gray whale that amazed Washington state residents after it swam 20 miles up a small river was found dead, and an official with a marine mammal research group suspects hunger may have driven ...
Saturday's tragic discovery of a dead juvenile gray whale in the Willapa River in Pacific County points to a bigger crisis. Washington’s gray whale population has dropped by more than 50% in the past ...
There are only around 380 North Atlantic right whales still living Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App team in 2025. Her work has previously ...
The juvenile whale had swum about 20 miles inland into the Willapa River. Researchers say it’s part of surge in gray whale deaths. A gray whale seen swimming in the Willapa River in Southwest ...
A young gray whale that amazed and confounded onlookers for days this week after winding up 20 miles inland in a Southwest Washington river has died, according to the marine wildlife nonprofit ...
PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — A whale spotted for the second time in one week on the Willapa River is deceased, according to the non-profit Cascadia Research Collective. On Wednesday, biologists with ...
WILLAPA, Wash. — A juvenile gray whale has found its way part way up the Willapa River in Pacific County. The whale, first seen Wednesday near Raymond, was spotted again in the same area on Thursday, ...
A humpback whale nicknamed Timmy that has been stranded in the Baltic Sea off Germany will be left to die; all rescue efforts have been called off, according to Till Backhaus, environment minister of ...
One of the world’s rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the giant mammal to ...