Troy Holden of Caliber snapped these shots of a dead pregnant whale that washed ashore two weeks ago near Bean Hollow Beach in Pesacadero. Holden told SFist that, after arriving at the beach, the stench was "worse than the Old Transbay restroom on a hot Friday night." more ›

Either an endangered fin or endangered sei whale washed up dead on Ocean Beach this week. The whale was buried yesterday. SF Appeal reports: more ›

Oh jeez. Another dead whale was found in the SF Bay, close to where another dead whale was discovered last month. CBS 5 reports that the creature was found "just East of the Ferry Building Wednesday, not far from the spot where another whale's carcass was recovered last month." more ›

Santa Cruz County construction crews spotted a fossilized vertebrae sticking out of the ground at Mid-County beach last month, which paleontologists have since identified as the remains of a whale, likely dating back five millions years. There will soon be an excavation of the site, the location of which will not be revealed. The whale is thought to be between 15 and 20 feet long, and the rock that it's attached to comes from the end of the Miocene Epoch. Experts are hoping to find the skull, which will help them ascertain whether the animal was an ancient Baleen whale, along the lines of today's plankton-feeding Humpbacks, or a meat-eating toothed whale, more closely related to the modern Orca. more ›