#whales

It’s been over 50 years since an experimental plan to dispose of a whale carcass on a beach in Oregon backfired in impressively disastrous fashion, and officials in the state have been forced to stress history will not repeat itself courtesy of a a viral post that claimed they were planning to

Perhaps the most exciting thing to happen in Sarasota County, Florida in years occurred earlier this month when a sperm whale carcass wound up on a beach in Venice. I’m born-and-raised in Sarasota and cannot say I’ve ever seen a proper whale (not a dolphin) around here until the sperm whale washed

A swimmer in La Jolla Beach came within feet from a pod of orcas hunting a dolphin. It seems impossible they wouldn’t have seen the massive orcas going after the dolphin but the swimmer kept their path parallel to the beach instead of heading into land. A beachgoer captured footage of the close