Image via Wikimedia Commons. You only have until this Friday to take the Ocean IQ Quiz for a chance to win prizes, including a trip with SEE Turtles to watch sea turtles in the wild. Here’s a whale-only quiz just for fun -- but no...

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered...

Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed criminal charges against an Los Angeles sushi restaurant for allegedly selling endangered whale meat.

Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed criminal charges against a Santa Monica sushi restaurant and one of its chefs, alleging that they sold endangered whale meat. Named in the complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los ...

Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed criminal charges against a Santa Monica sushi restaurant and one of its chefs, alleging that they sold endangered whale meat. Named in the complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los ...

Image via Wikimedia Commons. On this hump day, a few cetaceous stories for your perusal: As you've probably heard, the team behind Sunday’s Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove” exposed Santa Monica sushi restaurant The Hump for se...

Image via wikimedia commons. BBC News reports that Oregon scientists using impressive tagging technology have shown that sperm whales may work together in a kind of zone offense to hunt their squid prey. The researchers have evid...

Of course, it did! It's a wild animal! At Sealand in British Columbia in the mid-90s, a trainer drowned while in the tank with Tillikum, the whale who killed a trainer Dawn Brancheau at SeaWorld on Wednesday. He was sold in 1999 t...

SeaWorld San Diego, which temporarily closed its Shamu whale attraction on Wednesday after the death of a whale trainer on Florida, has worked to improve...

A veteran trainer at Orlando’s SeaWorld was dragged under water to her death Wednesday in the jaws of Tilikum, the oldest and largest killer whale in captivity, as horrified onlookers watched. Tourists eating poolside at a daily eve...

SeaWorld San Diego, which temporarily closed its Shamu whale attraction on Wednesday after the death of a whale trainer on Florida, has worked to improve safety after several incidents over the last three decades in which trainers w...

SeaWorld in San Diego has canceled its Shamu whale show at least for Wednesday after an Orlando SeaWorld employee was killed in mishap with a whale at that theme park. "We're terribly saddened by the loss of the member of...

A killer whale has killed its trainer at SeaWorld: Spectator Victoria Biniak told WKMG-TV that the trainer had just finished explaining to the audience a show they were about to see Wednesday when the whale appeared to grab the trai...

A SeaWorld trainer in Orlando died after being attacked by a killer whale Wednesday afternoon at the start of a show. The trainer was pulled into the Shamu Stadium tank and killed after 2 p.m. The whale, Tillikum, was involved in an...

Bats and toothed whales share the ability to squeak and click their way to prey. And now two new studies in this week’s journal Current Biology reveal that their echolocation, which evolved independently in the two groups, has a s...

Twitter suffered "a huge number of errors" on Wednesday morning, probably tied to news that sharp aftershocks had struck Haiti. "We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales," the term for the "fail whale"...

Image via Wikimedia Commons. Killer whales may be evolving into two separate species in the North Atlantic, says new research out of the UK. (Who knew orcas were common in UK waters, anyway?) The researchers discovered that the tw...

Eric McCormack shows off his booty in a thong in this pic from Wednesday’s episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine. The 46-year-old actor has been appearing on the show as a therapist named Max, and in “A Whale of A Tale,” Ch...

The New Adventures of Old Christine Season 5 Episode 12 A Whale of a Tale airs Wednesday January 13 at 8/7c on CBS. CHRISTINE PROFESSES HER LOVE TO HER THERAPIST AND GETS AN UNEXPECTED REACTION, ON “THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTI...

As you know, Wednesdays are normally devoted to blogging about the latest whale news. But I’ve redubbed today’s post in honor of yesterday's news about a certain sleek giant of the sea who continues to fetch exorbitant auction pri...