Divers off the coast of La Jolla made an extraordinary discovery last week when they spotted the carcass of a baby whale on ...

but it’s rare to encounter a baby whale without its momma. Sadly, newborn gray whales cannot feed or defend themselves if they become separated from their mothers. As Sackrison stated ...

Though the baby was no longer breathing, the mother couldn’t bring herself to let go. She nudged her nose under her lifeless newborn, laboring to keep it above the gray water of Puget Sound.

this baby whale had been dead for a while prior to washing up ashore. Michael Milstein with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the whale is apparently a "stillborn" gray ...

A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse with her for more than two weeks in a harrowing tale of grief, has lost another baby, scientists revealed.

Fewer gray whales are making the migration, especially fewer newborn babies. "We had about a five-year baby boom, in which instead of seeing 100 northbound calves, we were seeing 200, 242 ...

But it’s worth noting, for context, that gray whales are presently migrating from Alaska to nursing areas off Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. Whale births often occur during the southbound ...