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A group of scientists saw over 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered in the Gulf of Maine. Here's what we know.

Researchers at Saint Mary's University have acquired funding that will help them update a DNA database for the critically ...

The most famous fictional tale about a whale is, of course, Moby Dick. Captain Ahab is obsessed with finding and killing the ...

As the future of offshore wind energy remains up in the air, proponents and opponents of offshore wind have found common ...

A right whale is shown in the Bay of Fundy. (Photo by Moira Brown/courtesy of the New England Aquarium) Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to ...

The U.S. government recently dropped a proposed rule aimed at protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale, a ...

There are at least 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered off New England in an unusual sighting. Family vacationing in Grand Turks islands films Debris from Space X flying overhead The Dodge ...

and “Loki,” a whale who has only been seen in New England waters. The scientists conduct these types of aerial surveys to determine trends in where right whales appear so that they can help ke ...

Boater spots 1st North Atlantic right-whale calf of the season Brillant ... at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium, said the DNA database is a tool that works ...

The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are nearing extinction: Just 370 remain, and vessel strikes are one of their leading causes of death. Marine industry groups ...