The giant animals migrate, and usually arrive in Cape Cod Bay off Massachusetts early in the winter and stay until around the middle of May. The whale’s population fell by about 25% from 2010 to ...

The organization's Marine Animal Rescue and Response Team was busier in the first nine months of 2024 than all of 2023, ...

Marine life researchers hope samples taken from a young humpback whale whose body washed ashore at Rexhame Beach in Marshfield on Thursday will offer more information into her cause of death.

Latest spate of whale deaths 'unprecedented,' but vessel strikes, entanglements are chief concern Since December, at least eight dead whales have washed ashore in Massachusetts, and five more have ...

PLYMOUTH – Experts are investigating after a dead humpback whale washed ashore a beach in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The whale was found dead Tuesday morning on Bayside Beach. It's not yet known ...

Massachusetts politicians were fine with the economic costs of protecting endangered species – but only when it meant ...

Democrat Maura Healey says slowing vessels to 10 knots near Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard would create chaos without providing effective whale protection. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is ...

Last year proved “unprecedented” for strandings in Massachusetts, but experts say the development of energy sources isn’t the leading cause. Whale and Dolphin Conservation, a Plymouth-based ...

After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.