The more than 40-foot-long whale washed up on Long Beach, about four miles north of Seaview. Biologists spent all day Monday ...

About 335 of the whales died. 200 re-floated themselves at high tide with help from human volunteers. Cetacean stranding is an intriguing yet fairly common phenomenon as every year up to 2,000 animals ...

A rare whale was beached in low tide near the Emeryville ... Minke whales than gray whales or humpback whales, which are more common to the San Francisco Bay. “It’s very rare to see this ...

The geography of the Falkland Islands with many shallow water sandy beaches and strong winds makes them one of the most common natural ... north camp to the beached whales, generously guided ...

The Marine Mammal Center said the whale spotted near the Emeryville Marina was likely a juvenile minke whale. While sightings of the species are rare in the Bay Area, they are not unprecedented.

The largest mass-stranding in Australian history occurred in the same harbor in 2020 when 470 long-finned pilot whales became stuck on sandbars. Most of the beached whales died on both occasions.