The Jan. 30 online auction is the first of several this year. Here are the plates available and their starting prices.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

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

NOAA has withdrawn vessel speed rule changes aimed at strengthening protections for North Atlantic right whales, drawing ...

The whales travel along the East Coast's near-shore waters when migrating from their summer feeding grounds off New England and the ... 15 of 36 documented right whale deaths between 2017 and ...

There are at least 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered off New England in an unusual sighting. Steven Spielberg Honors David Lynch as Hollywood Mourns a Film Icon: ‘The World Is Going to ...