Whale deaths are on the rise along the New England coastline. Researchers are investigating why three whales died in Cape Cod Bay in less than a week. As WBUR reported, the researchers believe that ...

For the past 70 years, the fossilized remains have been housed at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, where ...

MONTEREY – Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean’s surface, the planet’s largest-toothed predator hunts for prey, which could include a giant squid or even a shark. Since the deep ocean is dark, the ...

A dead whale was found in the waters of Sai Kung, Hong Kong, on July 31, 2023. Many Sai Kung residents are blaming tourism and whale watching as the reason for the whale's death. The Ocean Park ...

Scientists confirmed the first east-to-west Atlantic migration of a North Atlantic right whale, traveling 3,000 miles from ...

Drones have been used to successfully collect samples from the exhaled breath—or "blow"—from wild humpback, sperm and fin ...

A Hong Kong government official vowed Tuesday to mull legal changes and set up protocols to better protect whales after the discovery of a carcass sparked anger on social media and speculation that ...

It's one of the known problems with plastic pollution: Marine animals like seals and whales keep turning up dead with their stomachs full of plastic bags and deflated Mylar balloons, having eaten ...

A surveillance team has found the remains of an endangered North Atlantic right whale 75 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, earlier this month in a "gruesome" discovery that has an advocacy ...

HONG KONG (AP) — The discovery of a whale carcass in Hong Kong waters Monday sparked an outpouring of grief on social media, with many comments blaming the mammal’s death on sightseers. Many residents ...