Oregon Coast Aquarium

Aquarium · Newport, OR, USA

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Two southern sea otters rest on their backs in a floating raft of kelp on a gray ocean surface, one looking toward the camera.

North America

The Work That Comes Before Oregon’s Sea Otters

Sea otters vanished from Oregon more than a century ago, hunted out for ...

A mounted blue whale skeleton raised on steel posts in an outdoor courtyard, with interpretive signs along a rope fence below it.

North America

A Blue Whale Skeleton Spent Three Years Under Yaquina Bay

A roughly 70-foot blue whale skeleton now stands in the courtyard of the ...

Aerial view of a humpback whale at the surface of dark blue water, its white pectoral flipper visible below.

Conservation Projects

Team Frees Entangled Humpback Off the Oregon Coast

A humpback whale anchored to the seafloor by more than 3,000 feet of ...

Three researchers in foul weather gear lean over the side of a boat to steady a broadnose sevengill shark lying in a water-filled tank.

North America

Oregon Coast Aquarium Tags Sharks That Stayed All Winter

Researchers expected broadnose sevengill sharks to spend their summers in northern waters and ...