
8 hours ago - By Associated Press
A juvenile humpback whale entangled in hundreds of feet of heavy rope off the Hawaii coast was being tracked by marine experts Wednesday. Complete Story...

Oct 21 - By Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press Writer
A 70-foot, female blue whale that officials believe was struck by a ship has washed ashore on the Northern California coast in what scientists are calling a rare occurrence.
Oct 12 - By Associated Press
Native Alaskans say a fourth-grader may have become the youngest person to kill a whale, delivering the fatal blow to a 32-foot bowhead during a hands-on hunting lesson from his uncles.
Oct 6 - By Associated Press
Scientists say a 41-foot-whale found floating in the Port of Tampa last weekend was killed by a ship out in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sep 28 - By Associated Press
Biologists are trying to figure out what killed a humpback whale found floating in a Virginia river.

Sep 27 - By Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press Writer
The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of the massive marine mammal has been steadily growing in recent decades.
Sep 1 - By Associated Press
Rescuers freed a young humpback whale that spent more than three hours tangled in a net Tuesday off an eastern Australian coastal tourist town.
Aug 13 - By Associated Press
The partial remains of an ancient toothed whale species that roamed the ocean 5 million years ago have been discovered on a California beach. Crews removing a 1,000-pound slab of sandstone off the Santa Cruz County beach Wednesday discovered the remains and called in paleontologists.

Jul 27 - By Associated Press
It wasn't a pretty sight, but whale watchers on a cruise ship in Canada got more than they bargained for when they arrived at the port of Vancouver — a dead whale stuck to the bow.
Jun 19 - By Associated Press
A stray gray whale has left a shallow marina near Los Angeles after spending more than three weeks there.
May 27 - By Associated Press
The carcass of a rare blue whale washed ashore in southern New Zealand after it apparently died of old age, a marine expert said Thursday.
May 20 - By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press Writer
Government scientists believe they have some good news about the endangered right whale, whose population in the Atlantic Ocean is struggling to come back.

May 8 - By Associated Press
Right whales have plenty to celebrate this Mother's Day — the sea moms gave birth to a record 39 calves this spring.
Apr 22 - By Jay Lindsay, Associated Press Writer
A research vessel for the federal agency charged with protecting the endangered right whale hit one of the animals off the Massachusetts coast this weekend, cutting into the animal's left tail fluke with its propeller.
Apr 5 - By Associated Press
A dead gray whale calf has washed up on a Southern California beach.
Mar 31 - By Noaki Schwartz, Associated Press Writer
An environmental group lost a lawsuit that would have forced the U.S. Coast Guard to better protect blue whales after several were killed by ships in the Santa Barbara Channel off Southern California.

Mar 23 - By Associated Press
One of four whales that survived a mass stranding in southwest Australia was found dead Thursday not far from where it had been released back to sea, the state government said.

Mar 17 - By Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press Writer
Environmental activists are suing the federal government for allegedly failing to prevent longline fishing fleets from repeatedly accidentally catching a rare whale species off Hawaii.

Mar 15 - By Michael Virtanen, Associated Press Writer
Monitoring for endangered right whales off New York harbor is ending because the project has lost funding in the state's current budget crunch.

Mar 11 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
PONCE INLET, Fla. - Scientists used sedatives to calm and then free a North Atlantic right whale entangled in rope off Florida's Atlantic Coast — the first time a large whale was ever sedated in the wild, according to the federal fisheries agency.
Mar 10 - By Associated Press
Scientists used sedatives to free an endangered right whale entangled in rope off Florida's Atlantic Coast.
Jan 20 - By Associated Press
Wildlife conservationists are still monitoring an endangered right whale tangled in fishing gear in the Atlantic off the Georgia coast, but windy weather hasn't allowed any attempts to free it since last week.
Jan 16 - By Russ Bynum, Associated Press Writer
Wind and choppy seas were frustrating efforts Friday to free an endangered right whale tangled in fishing gear as it swam from the Georgia coast into waters off Florida.
Nov 13 - By Associated Press
An Australian man was caught by surprise when a large whale whacked him lightly on the head with its tail as he unknowingly scooted over it while kite surfing.

Oct 17 - By Dan Joling, Associated Press Writer
The beluga whales of Alaska's Cook Inlet are endangered and require additional protection to survive, the government declared Friday, contradicting Gov. Sarah Palin who has questioned whether the distinctive white whales are actually declining.