Wayward Whales Back on Track
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Two whales lost in the Sacramento River were spotted Tuesday morning just beyond a bridge where they had stopped a day earlier, a delay that worried scientists hoping to get them back to the ocean
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For the last 12 years, a single solitary whale whose vocalizations match no known living species has been tracked across the Northeast Pacific. Its wanderings match no known migratory patterns of any living whale species. Its vocalizations have also subtly deepened over the years, indicating that the whale is maturing and ageing. And, during the entire 12 year span that it has been tracked, it has been calling out for contact from others of its own kind.  It has received no answer. Nor will it ever.
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Encouraged by the response of two injured, wayward whales to the spray of a fire hose, marine scientists plan to use more hoses when they resume efforts next week to herd the pair back out to the Pacific Ocean.
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Tibetan antelope slowly recovering, WCS says    WASHINGTON, Feb.
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Two humpback whales that swam from the Pacific Ocean far up into central California's inland waterways appear to be heading back toward open ocean, wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
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RESCUE workers will know this morning if their attempts to save whales beached yesterday on Maria Island, off Tasmania&#39;s east coast, were successful.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Two whales lost on the Sacramento River swam 14 miles toward the ocean Sunday after lingering for a week about 70 miles from the sea, officials coordinating the rescue said.
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Rescuers succeeded in saving most of the whales still stranded on beaches in Australia and New Zealand as scientists pinpointed cyclical weather patterns as a likely cause of increased beachings.
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Rescue teams are confident of saving most surviving whales from a pod beached off Tasmania&#39;s east coast - the second mass stranding in Tasmanian waters in 24 hours.
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Washington state's resident killer whales, with two newborns in tow, dodged a potentially lethal roadblock in their voyage south to feast on a healthy run of chum salmon, experts say.
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ENSENADA, Mexico  - For years, Cristina Imana has  gazed out from her clifftop porch near the Mexican resort town  of Ensenada and watched migrating gray whales roll around with  their babies in the glistening surf below.
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By ERIN CONROY BOSTON - A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago.
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country's fleet, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 30 -- Some days, killer whales just wake up on the wrong side of the pool.
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The North Atlantic right whale, western wolverine and the dromedary jumping-slug on Canada's Pacific coast will soon share a dubious distinction.
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Scientists apparently freed a young whale from more than 150 feet of lobster-fishing gear Friday after riding alongside the animal on a Coast Guard cutter for nearly 24 hours.
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A lone whale, with a voice unlike any other, has been wandering the Pacific for the past 12 years, American marine biologists said Wednesday.