whales

A New Jersey beach is the final resting place for a 15-ton whale whose lifeless body washed ashore on Christmas day. State and local officials used heavy equipment to bury the 31-foot male humpback whale on a beach Monday morning. The whale was frozen solid and could not be cut into pieces for removal, as is commonly done in other…

A father and daughter were fishing off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada when two whales jumped out of the water nearby.

Ships are hitting and killing whales off the California coast at some of the highest rates in more than a decade, according to data obtained and tabulated by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The spike in ‘ship strikes’ comes despite a 5-year government initiative to slow down vessels as they make their way into San Francisco Bay.

An aquarium and an engineering firm in Massachusetts are partnering on a project to better protect whales by monitoring them from space. New England Aquarium of Boston and Draper of Cambridge say whale conservation needs new, higher-tech solutions to protect whales from extinction. So, the pair are working together using data from sources such as satellites, sonar and radar to…