Each March, gray whales begin one of the longest migrations on Earth, offering rare chances for shore watchers to spot them.

NOAA biologists count the whales annually on their migration south starting in January, and this is the seventh year the ...

The nearly 80-year-old disc resided in the archives of the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for decades and may hold ...

Puget Sound Express on Tuesday announced it is launching a new Edmonds-to-San Juan Island Whale Watching Tour, a full-day excursion combining whale watching with a two-hour visit to Friday Harbor. […] ...

Recently, while sailing with friends on San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed the sight of harbor porpoises, cormorants, pelicans, seals and sea lions — and then the spouting plume and glistening back of a ...