Laura Sherr

The Rose Parade in Southern California will feature some Bay Area flavor thanks to Homestead High School’s marching band.

A dead humpback whale washed up on the Point Reyes National Seashore on Christmas Eve.

A dead blue whale was found Wednesday afternoon washed ashore at Thornton State Beach in Daly City.

A dead blue whale was found Wednesday afternoon washed ashore at Thornton State Beach in Daly City. Kim Yonenaka reports.

An emaciated baby northern fur seal was spotted early Wednesday morning in the East Bay, flopping about in some bushes at a Hayward business park.

Rescue crews in Northern California tranquilized a wayward seal that snarled traffic for two days by trying to cross a highway several times. A veterinarian using a pole-mounted tranquilizer sedated the 900-pound elephant seal Tuesday, and at least 12 people loaded the unconscious animal onto a tarp and then brought it to a waiting truck. Officials said they have no...

A young dolphin was rescued Saturday morning in unincorporated Monterey County by a Wildlife Emergency Services team.

Biologists will perform a necropsy on a dead whale that washed up near Fremont to determine what caused its death, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A dead whale washed up near Fremont Thursday morning, according to the Marine Mammal Center. Chuck Coppola reports.

San Francisco’s Ocean Beach was a sight for sore eyes this week when three large mammals washed up on the shore.

A stranded sea lion pup nicknamed “Rubbish” was walking along a San Francisco sidewalk Thursday morning in what marine mammal rescuers fear could be the “new normal” of a warming Pacific Ocean.

A stranded sea lion pup nicknamed “Rubbish” was walking along a San Francisco sidewalk Thursday morning in what marine mammal rescuers fear could be the “new normal” of a warming Pacific Ocean. Christie Smith reports.