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An adult female gray whale was spotted off Mare Island in Vallejo. This is at least the seventh dead whale that has washed up ...
The rare Bryde’s whale that washed ashore in Port McNeill Bay this week will be a feature display in the new Whale ...
A young Bryde’s whale, which is rarely seen in B.C., has been found washed up dead on Vancouver Island, according to the ...
A man walking his dog on Wednesday morning discovered the dead whale in Port McNeill at the end of the bay in the ...
Tissues from the 55-foot carcass, possibly of a baleen whale, will be studied to determine more about it and its cause of ...
Bryde’s whales (pronounced BROO-dus) are a type of baleen whale, feeding primarily on plankton and small schooling fish. They ...
have led efforts to keep the whale comfortable. Clay George, a marine animal biologist with NOAA, said sperm whales are part of an endangered species. He said this one that washed ashore is smalle ...
A whale rarely seen this far north has washed ashore on Vancouver Island. The young Bryde’s whale, which normally ranges much farther south in tropical waters, was discovered Thursday at Port ...