We don’t expect animals to act in a way that doesn’t directly benefit their species. But humpback whales are willing to take on one of their few natural predators to become the heroes of the ocean!

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is helping investigate the entanglement of a young humpback whale stranded earlier ...

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 ...

It felt like everyone in Oregon was watching and worrying after a young humpback whale was stranded Saturday on a beach north ...

In its wake, we examined whale entanglements along the West Coast. Entanglements occur when a human-made material — such as ...

YACHATS, Ore. - A humpback whale has become stranded on the beach after becoming entangled in crab gear.

A juvenile humpback, estimated to be about 2 years old, was discovered at a beach in Neskowin on Nov. 4. The whale was examined by Carrie Newell, an Oregon marine biologist and owner of Whale Research ...