These marine mammals are still feeling the effects of whaling. For most species, it may be another 100 years before there are ...

New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years—almost twice as long ...

In 1904, a Norwegian whaler named C.F. Larsen went to the South Atlantic island of South Georgia for the first time, and was ...

A survey team said a thick rope was located over one whale’s head and back, which could cause its eventual death.

One of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales is expected to die after becoming entangled in fishing gear near ...

Two endangered whales have been found entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Massachusetts, and one of them is likely to ...

Scientists from Mystic Aquarium conducted a necropsy on a dead minke whale washed up on Quonnie Beach in Charlestown, Rhode ...

The two whales have been identified as a juvenile male — which authorities think will “likely to die” — and a 13-year-old ...

The federal government says that two endangered right whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts.

On Dec. 9, an aerial survey spotted the whales swimming about 50 miles southeast of Nantucket, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement Tuesday.

Two endangered North Atlantic right whales have been discovered entangled in fishing gear near Massachusetts, posing a ...

Through an aerial survey scanning the Atlantic waters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has ...