A 46-foot-long fin whale washed ashore in Clatsop County on the Oregon coast Saturday morning. Officials from the Seaside ...

The lobstermen went against fishing protocol by dropping their northeast endlines to reduce the number of ropes in the water.

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National Geographic issued a record-breaking album of those tunes alongside a story about ...

North Atlantic right whales need to have 50 births per year to increase their population, a number that is mathematically impossible for the current population. In 2026, the North Atlantic right ...

Marineland, a defunct amusement park near the Niagara Falls, had reportedly told Canadian officials that the only options for ...

Rescuers were able to remove a portion of the fishing gear that entangled a North Atlantic right whale in Cape Cod Bay over the weekend, officials said. The Center for Coastal Studies was notified ...

The humpback whale that washed up near Bethany Beach on Jan. 8 likely died from being struck by a large ship, according to the nonprofit Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute. The ...

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Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from the Arctic. Picture of Krista McGrath analyzing one of the harpoons that ...

The news comes one year after documentation that the North Atlantic right whale population increased 2.1% between 2023 and 2024 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

A massive, 32-foot long, 20,000-pound humpback whale washed up on Bethany Beach a few days ago, leaving many people hundreds of miles away very upset. The whale is now buried under the sand after, ...