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

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.

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

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

Cetaceans in UK waters are nothing new. Minke whales ... Europe is a great place for whale watching. Some 36 species of cetaceans can be seen in the waters, from Greenland east to the Russian ...

The proposed rules would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters in an attempt to save the endangered ...

The rule was proposed in August 2022 with the goal of limiting the number of North Atlantic Right Whale deaths.

Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales. The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are ...

Levien The Biden administration on Thursday withdrew a proposal to expand protections for an endangered whale species ... a conservation scientist at New England Aquarium in Boston, in a statement.

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