NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- An entangled humpback whale was spotted off the coast of Newport Beach, and after an unsuccessful attempt to free the animal, rescue crews say it's a tricky task.

A humpback whale that had been thrilling boaters off Newport Beach, Ca., for several days breached for a prolonged period Sunday, revealing that the mammal is hardly free and thriving.

A humpback whale that had been thrilling boaters off Newport Beach, Ca., for several days breached for a prolonged period Sunday, revealing that the mammal is hardly free and thriving. The ...

People ventured onto the frozen mudflats on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, to see a Fin whale that came to rest at Fish Creek near Anchorage. (Bill Roth / ADN) A 47-foot fin whale washed ashore along ...

Pilot whales that stranded on Farewell Spit in Golden Bay were refloated on the high tide on Tuesday morning. Rescuers, Department of Conservation rangers and the local community have been working to ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about ...

A synthetic bag found inside the intestines of a whale that became stranded in Hong Kong waters is “highly likely” to have resulted in the animal’s death as the piece of rubbish could have ...

This is the first time marine scientists have documented a new hunting technique of killer whales. A group of orcas were filmed working together to hit a whale shark until it turned upside down.

Scientists in New Zealand have begun a historic dissection of the rarest whale species in the world. The discovery of a male spade-toothed whale—which washed up near the fishing village of ...

Pictures and videos have revealed new, specialised hunting techniques used by killer whales to attack the world's largest fish, according to scientists. On four occasions caught on video ...

A whale stranded in Hong Kong waters has died, hours after authorities found it wounded and in a weak condition. Experts discovered a canvas bag measuring about half a square metre in the animal ...

A fascinating, yet unsettling behavior, the researchers who recently published that orcas here are hunting whale sharks, the world’s largest fish. These predation events, documented between 2018 ...