Lab tests conducted at UC Santa Cruz of samples taken from the two carcasses found domoic acid, the biotoxin that causes ...

New laboratory findings indicate that domoic acid exposure was the cause of death for one juvenile humpback whale and a ...

Efforts to rescue a humpback whale stranded for weeks on Germany's Baltic Sea coast were complicated Monday when the animal unexpectedly swam away but then appeared to have got stuck again. The ...

In early March, a young male humpback whale appeared where humpback whales are not supposed to be: in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Wismar, in northern Germany. The animal—forty feet long and ...

After a humpback whale affectionately named Timmy became stuck in shallow waters, early rescue attempts failed. Six weeks later, two millionaires have stepped in to fund a fresh attempt. This turn of ...

A humpback whale that was stranded off the coast of Germany is back in his natural habitat. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Berlin on the controversial human intervention that got him there. ROB ...

The entrepreneur-funded rescue effort said that it had fitted the previously stranded whale with a tracking device but this is suspected to be untrue. View on euronews ...