RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. – Boats, airplanes and helicopters searched up and down the Southern California coast Saturday for a blue whale that got tangled up in hundreds of feet of line, and ...

The whale is entangled in hundreds of feet of fishing line and hasn't been seen since late Friday. Federal marine officials say if that line isn't cut soon, the whale could die. It was a typical whale ...

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. -- A boat off the coast of Mexico apparently spotted the blue whale Monday that rescuers first saw several days ago entangled in hundreds of feet of fishing line near Los ...

Boats, planes, and helicopters have all been deployed in the search for a blue whale that has got tangled up in a rope off the southern Californian coast. The 25 meter (80 foot) cetacean was spotted ...

The search was halted Friday night then picked up again. — -- Officials combed the waters off the coast of Palos Verdes, California, today, in search of a blue whale entangled in fishing line.

Federal authorities said a humpback whale found tangled in a fishing line this week near Unalaska was freed on Friday. The roughly 32-foot 2-year-old male whale was first reported in distress Monday ...

Researchers have a new tactic to save endangered whales tangled in fishing line: Get them to calm down with sedatives shot from a dart gun so they can pull closer and cut the potentially fatal gear ...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — A 45-ton humpback whale tangled in heavy fishing line in Hawaii waters for more than a week has been freed. A crew from the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine ...

Off the coast of California, a 70-to-80 foot blue whale was struggling to swim. — -- Crews raced to help a blue whale entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Dana Point, California, about 50 ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina – Scientists freed a young Atlantic right whale from tangled fishing gear Friday after riding alongside the animal on a U.S. Coast Guard cutter for nearly 24 hours, a ...

An emaciated and distressed humpback whale has been saved after getting entangled in up to 2,500 feet of fishing line off the coast of Hawaii. Photos of the rescue have been released by the National ...