#whales

It’s been over 50 years since an experimental plan to dispose of a whale carcass on a beach in Oregon backfired in impressively disastrous fashion, and officials in the state have been forced to stress history will not repeat itself courtesy of a a viral post that claimed they were planning to

Perhaps the most exciting thing to happen in Sarasota County, Florida in years occurred earlier this month when a sperm whale carcass wound up on a beach in Venice. I’m born-and-raised in Sarasota and cannot say I’ve ever seen a proper whale (not a dolphin) around here until the sperm whale washed

A swimmer in La Jolla Beach came within feet from a pod of orcas hunting a dolphin. It seems impossible they wouldn’t have seen the massive orcas going after the dolphin but the swimmer kept their path parallel to the beach instead of heading into land. A beachgoer captured footage of the close

If you had ‘humans converse with whales‘ on your 2023 BINGO card then go ahead and check that item off. A team of scientists collaborating between the SETI Institute, University of California-Davis, and the Alaska Whale Foundation have successfully pulled off a 20-minute conversation with an

An avid Australian windsurfer by the name of Jason Breen thought he’d met his end at the bottom of Davy Jones’s Locker when a breaching humpback whale erupted out of the water beside his board and then landed right on top of him, sending him ’20 to 30 feet’ below the surface. Strictly by