The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing ...

A North Atlantic Right Whale, previously found entangled in a rope off of south Georgia, has been discovered dead off the ...

Scientists will conduct a necropsy to determine the cause of death, marking the second right whale fatality documented in ...

The dead right whale was a female. Scientists say they worry especially about deaths of females because the species is ...

A North Atlantic right whale washed ashore on a Virginia barrier island, according to federal scientists, marking the second ...

A young North Atlantic right whale that state wildlife officials helped partially disentangle from fishing gear in December, ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Once driven to the brink of extinction by commercial whaling, southern right whales slowly returned to Australian coastlines ...

Marine officials are working to determine the cause of death for a 3-year-old right whale that was found dead on a barrier island near the Eastern Shore this week.

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — As wildlife officials work to track new endangered mom and calf pairs popping up this calving season, they're also trying to maintain the health of the less than 400 North ...

When a right whale appeared trailing fishing gear in Cape Cod Bay Jan. 17, rescuers mobilized – underscoring challenges the species still faces.