NANTUCKET – A gray whale was spotted off the Massachusetts coast recently in what experts call an "incredibly rare event." The species has been extinct in the Atlantic Ocean for more than 200 years.

The Ocean City buoy operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and University of Maryland Center for Environmental ...

Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ... chief executive of the Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance, who is leading a necropsy of the whale to determine her cause ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management denied the seismic airgun survey applications in part because the loud blasts would hurt endangered North Atlantic right whales and other sensitive wildlife.

Biologists found significant blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by a vessel.

The North Atlantic right whale ... A humpback whale cruised incognito alongside his vessel until its slick black body shot out of the ocean like a rocket before belly flopping in a spectacular ...

This process is particularly important, as ocean phytoplankton captures carbon dioxide and generates much of the atmosphere’s oxygen. AWI works to protect the North Atlantic right whale by advocating ...

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that will help predict endangered whale habitat, guiding ships along the Atlantic coast to avoid them. The tool is designed to prevent ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management denied the seismic airgun survey applications in part because the loud blasts would hurt endangered North Atlantic right whales and other sensitive wildlife.