Humpback whales, particularly playful by nature, have been known to trail ships in the Mexican Riviera and Hawaiian waters, ...

Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again. At least 70 whales have perished since the start of the year in the shallow, protected lagoons of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula where the ...

Starting that spring, biologists at the Laguna San Ignacio research station recorded roughly 80 dead whales in Mexican waters, and just 41 mother-calf pairs in the lagoon.

The most recent data from NOAA shows a major decline in gray whale populations compared to a year ago. Here's what to know.

A gray whale pushes her calf to the surface in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times) Gray whales are dying in large numbers, again.