A team was expected to examine a dead whale that washed up near Surfers Point in Ventura. Here's what to know.

They're the biggest fish in the sea — and found in warm oceans all around the world. But some things about them remain a ...

No dorsal fin. V-shaped blow. Almost extinct. Right Whale Day brings a rare species into focus — before it’s too late.

A toxin released by one of the largest algae blooms on record off the Southern California coast was linked to the deaths of a ...

A pair of North Atlantic right whales seen off Florida in the Gulf may be headed back north after being seen in Bimini in the ...

One of the largest harmful algae blooms recorded along the Southern California coast has led to the illness and death of ...

NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...

It is illegal to approach a North Atlantic right whale within 500 yards without a federal research permit. Still, from the ...

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

There was a giant reminder of a species in danger in front of the New England Aquarium Thursday. Lessons were out of the water in celebration of the third annual Massachusetts Right Whale Day. “Right ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo ...

A Cape Cod marine rescue team has been working to disentangle a North Atlantic right whale from a fishing gear entanglement ...