Long ago, on a faraway Aleutian island, a pair of rare beaked whales got stranded. One was saved by biologists and swam back ...

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Millions of children have grown up watching PBS Kids’ educational TV, geared toward 2- to 8-year-olds—from classics like “Sesame Street” and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” to recently added shows like ...

After nearly two decades, the baby whale came back—as a mother, with a baby of its own. Julie Albert, director of the Right Whale Sighting Network at Blue World Research Institute, a nonprofit, first ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted off Florida's Gulf coast, a rare sighting for the area. The whale, named "Millipede," is 21 years old and this is her third known ...

A 46-foot fin whale that washed up on the Oregon coast on Saturday has been dead for “quite some time,” officials with the Seaside Aquarium said. The dead whale appeared on Sunset Beach, near ...

A dead fin whale was discovered on Sunset Beach near Warrenton on the Oregon Coast Feb. 7. Jim Riley, 65, of Tualatin, was beach combing just before dawn when he came across the carcass. There was an ...

Tuesday on the News Hour, the Trump administration changes its leadership for immigration operations in Minnesota after public backlash from two deadly shootings. Taiwan fears that the American ...

The opening scene in the first of four episodes of the PBS series Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History captures a truly wonderful event: a Passover Seder led by culinary genius Michael ...

Police arrest two men accused of firing dozens of shots outside NE Portland smoke shop Police arrested two men in east Portland last Sunday for allegedly firing over 30 shots in a parking off of ...

Canada's last captive whales have received a reprieve from death after the government conditionally approved a plan Monday to export them to the United States. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson met ...