An endangered North Atlantic right whale, swimming in the Gulf off the Florida coast, was captured on video by SeaTrek ...

The Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have partnered to start a program ...

During calving season, the whales migrate south to give birth in the warmer waters off the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Fewer than ...

Whales are mammals — the same overall group that includes humans, dogs, cats, monkeys, pigs and others. Unlike fish, whales have lungs, not gills. That means they must return to the ocean's ...

Whales can become caught in rope that runs between shellfish creels on the seabed to a buoy on the surface. Trials have been done using "ropeless creels" which have the main line in a container along ...

Humpback whales tend to be seen around the UK between January and March but there has been an increased number of sightings ...

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

There are about 370 right whales left in the world, and Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Tom O'Shea said two-thirds of them come to Cape Cod Bay every year. The season's first right whale ...

A heartbreaking incident unfolded at Hartenbos Beach in Mossel Bay, where a beaked whale was found stranded on the shore, ...