The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young Riley Black - Science Correspondent ...

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After being euthanized Sunday evening, the beached whale that washed up on Hilton Head Island is pulled by its tail to the spot where a necropsy can be performed. Town of Hilton Head Facebook A ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth ...

The Marine Mammal Center sent a research vessel to take blubber and skin samples of the whale in Alameda on Friday morning, the centers said. Scientists confirmed that that whale was an adult female.

They were hunted nearly to extinction in the mid-1800s and again in the early 1900s for their blubber, which was used mainly as fuel to burn oil lamps. In 2016, NOAA researchers estimated the gray ...

Long Beach, B.C. - Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks Guardian Gisele Maria Martin spotted the whale floating out in rough seas in front of the Esowista Peninsula on Monday and by Wednesday the ...

A woman wearing a Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network T-shirt pours water on the beached whale on May 4, 2025. Water and sheets were used to keep the whale cool and moist in the summer heat. Li Khan ...

On Friday, scientists took a skin and blubber sample from that whale, and determined that it was an adult female. Cal Academy and East Bay Regional Parks arranged to have the dead gray whale towed ...

Sharp knives were used to cut into the body as scientists peeled back layers of blubber in search of answers. A slight fishy smell wafted from the body. "It smells like the ocean," an onlooker said.

A team from the Marine Mammal Center took initial skin and blubber samples via a research vessel on Friday morning, April 18, and identified the whale as an adult female. As of Monday, April 21 ...