A dead whale drifting off Cardiff State Beach turned into a great white feeding frenzy and triggered shark warnings for surfers and swimmers along the coast.

A whale initially believed to have been beached was confirmed dead Monday, floating about 400 yards off the coast of San Elijo State Beach in Encinitas.

Blue whale calves are rarely seen at all, according to the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Services, and those two videos appeared to be the only real footage of nursing behavior in the species. There are, however, at least four real videos of reasonable quality highlighting nursing humpback whales.

This video was shot by a scuba diver swimming in the Galapagos Islands, located in Ecuador. We see a massive whale shark swimming and then slowly turn back toward the diver, moving slowly and steadily.

The endangered fin whale was found floating around 400 feet off the coast of Cardiff State Beach in Encinitas, Calif.

Privateer spotted the largest animal in the world, a blue whale, while on a marine science field trip near Point Loma, and another sighting was reported by

From Oregon to Washington, gray whales migrating north are stranding dead at higher-than-usual rates this spring, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries. The agency has recorded two whale deaths in Oregon and a dozen or more in Washington so far this year — those numbers exceed typical counts for this point in the migration season.

A paper in Genome Biology and Evolution discovers that the endangered Mediterranean fin whale is not completely isolated from Atlantic groups. Both Atlantic and Mediterranean populations have declined for the past 200,

A recent rise in whale stranding’s along the Oregon and Washington coasts is alarming. From Oregon to Washington, gray whales migrating north are stranding dead at higher-than-usual rates this