When paddleboarding in the ocean, you never know what kind of animals you’ll encounter. But we’re guessing that getting a ...

The first clue sits in a museum drawer, not on a windswept Arctic shore. It is a whale bone, marked and shaped by human hands ...

The 30-foot whale, believed to be a humpback, came onto shore at about 3 p.m. between the Newport and Balboa piers ...

Biologists with the Center for Whale Research have documented a new southern resident killer whale calf traveling with L pod.

Southern right whales are having fewer calves as sea ice shrinks. Scientists say this species may now be a warning sign of climate change.

Longer stints between southern right whale babies are sounding alarm bells for all species reliant on krill and a healthy ...

New research on the birth rates of southern right whales – once touted as a global conservation success story – has revealed ...

Since around 2015, female southern right whales have not given birth as often. These extended calving intervals mean fewer ...

The tide has turned on the conservation success story of the southern right whale. Once considered a global conservation ...

North Atlantic right whales sometimes gather at Jeffrey’s Ledge, a 62-mile-long underwater ridge about 25 miles off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Sarah Leiter DMR, NMFS Permit No. 27858. Get ...

North Atlantic right whales have returned to the waters south of Massachusetts, prompting federal authorities to designate a voluntary slow zone. Scientists from the New England Aquarium’s Anderson ...

At 4 p.m. on Jan. 20, new squiggles emerged on Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Senior Scientist Mark Baumgartner's computer screen. Two years since it was deployed, Savannah's acoustic ...