UPDATE: This post has been updated with input from NOAA Fisheries regarding the likelihood that the whale had been struck by a ship. A 26-foot humpback whale that was found deceased and entangled ...

They usually are spotted alone or in groups of two or three and use side-lunging as a way of feeding on schools of fish, the NOAA said. Fin whales are hunted by commercial whalers, which has ...

COURTESY ED LYMAN /NOAA Trained responder Maria Harvey works to entangle a humpback whale. COURTESY ED LYMAN /NOAA Trained responder Maria Harvey works to entangle a humpback whale. Federal wildlife ...

"The humpback was pushed off aquaculture equipment, and the whale washed ashore on Huntington Beach on the morning of January 25." Experts with NOAA, WCRSN, the Ocean Animal Response and Research ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, which monitors right whales closely through aerial surveys, said the adult female has already been struck once before by a boat.