NEWBURYPORT — Folks attending the next Custom House Maritime Museum First Friday 2026 lecture are bound to have a whale of a time as Newburyport Whale Watch marine naturalist Kristin Daley is the ...

Want to spot nature’s largest animal in the wild? Late December is a great time to make it happen — and the weather might even play ball this year. Upward of 14,000 gray whales are expected to swim ...

"This young whale stole our hearts in late July, spending over an hour flipper slapping, rolling near the boat, and breaching ...

Twice each year, some 20,000 gray whales pass along the California coast as they swim south to breeding lagoons on the west coast of Baja California during winter months, then back to their summer ...

The great gray whale migration is back on the Oregon coast. The massive migration of eastern North Pacific gray whales — the longest mammalian migration in the world — sees thousands of whales ...

The death of a whale found on the bow of a container ship at a port along the Delaware River in southern New Jersey is under ...

DEPOE BAY, Ore. — Winter days with clear skies at the Oregon coast can be hard to find. At Rocky Creek State Park, the sweeping ocean views are already reason enough to pull over. But this time of ...

Gray whales are migrating south, from summer feeding grounds off the coast of Alaska down to the lagoons of Mexico, to give birth. As they swim past Oregon, it’s possible to see their breathing spouts ...

The young whale, dubbed "Oil Change," was seen repeatedly off Cape Cod, and would entertain whale watchers with breaches and flipper slaps.

Well, this is a grim way to celebrate Whale Watch Week. For several days, a grisly scene has been playing out on the central Oregon coast: A piece of a dead whale (part of its head, to be specific) ...

Courtesy of Stefanie Knowlton / Oregon State Parks If you want to see a whale off the coast of Oregon, this weekend is a good time to do it. Whale Watch Week this year runs Dec. 27 through Dec. 31.