A minke whale that had been swimming in the Long Beach Harbor died from domoic acid poisoning, tests show. The poisoning is associated with the toxic algae bloom that has sickened and killed other ...

A toxin released by one of the largest algae blooms on record off the Southern California coast was linked to the deaths of a ...

Taken together, the deaths have raised the specter of past “unusual mortality events” that caused whales to die in higher-than-normal numbers.

A minke whale also died in the Bay Area this year, according to The Marine Mammal Center. The minke whale was a juvenile that was euthanized April 8 after it became stranded on a mudflat just off ...

A minke whale that was swimming in Long Beach Harbor earlier this month died from domoic acid poisoning associated with a toxic algal bloom that has stricken many other sea creatures, according to ...

A minke whale that was swimming in Long Beach Harbor earlier this month died from domoic acid poisoning associated with a toxic algal bloom that has stricken many other sea creatures, according to ...

It was the fourth whale death in the San Francisco Bay in a week and a half. The other three were gray whales, the first of which—a 36-foot-long female—washed up at Black Sands Beach in the ...

The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito confirmed the deaths include three gray whales and one minke whale. The most recent was a juvenile minke that stranded itself repeatedly before being ...

The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself off the coast of Emeryville April 8. Scientists had thought she seemed ...