When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something ...

On an Oregon beach just north of the city of Yachats, a quiet crowd gathered over several days last weekend as a young humpback whale lay stranded and dying on the sand. People returned to the ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued a fleet advisory for the commercial Dungeness crab fishery in all waters off Oregon, highlighting an increasing number of whale entanglements. The ...

Last year, there were 36 whales entangled with commercial fishing gear off the coasts of Oregon, Washington and California, or found entangled with West Coast fishing gear off the coasts of other ...

Scientists know a surprising amount of information about Southern Resident Killer Whales, but once the whales leave their ...