Nature enthusiasts from across the country on Thursday hopped on board a full-day boating adventure in the hopes of getting an up-close encounter with the largest animal on Earth — the blue whale. The ...

Whale watching charter owners said they couldn’t remember a time over the last decade when blue whales, the earth’s largest mammals, showed up this late off Southern California. In recent years, their ...

An early season blue whale sighting has ocean watchers hopeful there will be more of the world’s largest animal showing up off the local coast. The sighting on Tuesday was about 3 miles off the Dana ...