A “super pod” of over 1,500 Risso’s dolphins was spotted swimming and leaping in Carmel Bay, California, on January 24. Evan ...

A super pod of more than 1,500 Risso’s dolphins was spotted in Carmel Bay this week, an uncommon sighting that highlights the ...

Nantucket and New Bedford thrived as whaling ports in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the expeditions that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution severely depleted whale populations. Northern right ...

The Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) is hosting an auction to benefit MET grant funding to support the protection and ...

BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population worldwide, have gathered in an area off the coast of New England.

Southern right whales are found in the Southern Hemisphere, migrating from high-latitude feeding areas in summer to low-latitude breeding grounds in winter. Northern Atlantic right whales ...

Dozens of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted in the Gulf of Maine this week, researchers from the ...

North Atlantic right whales should live well past 100 years, but threats to the endangered species, including from commercial crab and lobster fishing, have cut their lifespan to a fraction of that, a ...

Two more North Atlantic right whale calves have been sighted off the coast of the southeastern U.S., bringing the total number of calves so far this calving sea ...

The ocean welcomes four precious right whale calves! Learn about their mothers, calving challenges, and efforts to protect ...

The whales were seen “in all directions: at the surface, swimming, and diving,” said Kate Laemmle, associate research ...