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Sea Lion on Oregon Coast Dock Humanely Euthanized After Shark Takes Piece Out of It - It had been languishing in pain on a Newport dock for awhile

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The City Council decided last year to explore the option of turning over the aquarium to a private entity after learning the tanks that hold the animals are deteriorating and will cost millions of dollars to repair.

A whale calf spotted in distress off of Māʻalaea Bay on Maui today, is likely suffering from blunt force injuries caused by a vessel strike. That’s the determination made by researchers with the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. The organization received reports from various on-water vessel operators of the suspected injury. Researchers with […]

A storm that battered Southern California this week also washed ashore a 30-foot dead whale in Huntington Beach.

The gray whale, which measured around 30 feet long, appeared to have been dead for a few weeks before it washed ashore.

The gray whale, which measured around 30 feet long, appeared to have been dead for a few weeks before it washed ashore.

Bird flu, already killing seabirds in the Salish Sea, has jumped to harbor seals in the first documented instance of marine mammals dying from the disease on the West Coast. The deaths were …

A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has killed thousands of wild birds and is now infecting seals and other marine mammals. Researchers know the virus can jump from birds to mammals, but they are on alert to see if it can be transmitted from mammal to mam...

A dolphin has been stuck in a freshwater creek in Suffolk, Virginia for weeks, according to reports.