How do you give a whale a health checkup? Scientists have been collecting respiratory droplets from North Atlantic right ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Federal researchers studying critically endangered North Pacific right whales sometimes go years without finding their subjects. Last weekend, they got lucky. A research vessel in ...

The documentary on the challenges facing the iconic New England sea mammal was screened at Marblehead's Abbot Public Library.

Whales are the bees of the ocean. That’s a conclusion of new research showing that whales undertake the longest journeys to transport nutrients of any mammal or large animal on Earth, much like bees ...

A vanishing species of whale gave birth to few babies this birthing season, raising alarms among scientists and conservationists who fear the animal could go extinct. The whale is the North Atlantic ...

SAN DIEGO — The population of gray whales migrating along the North American Pacific Coast has dropped to levels not seen since the 1970s, according to a new report released by the National Oceanic ...

The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with ships in its waters. The whale is the North Atlantic right whale, which ...