A sperm whale stranded on Cuttyhunk Island over the weekend, adding to alarming whale death toll since December. Here's what ...

The ocean welcomes four precious right whale calves! Learn about their mothers, calving challenges, and efforts to protect ...

BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population ...

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

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has awarded Saint Mary’s University a contract to update the DNA database of one of ...

set to be built just 9 miles off the New Jersey coast, is in violation of at least six environmental statutes: the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal ...

Other new research this month looked at snow leopards, wolves, wildlife crossings, newly discovered species, and … scorpion ...

Although we humans certainly do like to think of ourselves as smart, we only just discovered a new species of whale. The Rice's whale.

Researchers figured out that the Bryde’s Whales in the Gulf of Mexico were not, in fact, Bryde’s Whales. Photo: NWF ...