To whales that hunt with soundwaves in the lightless depths of the ocean, a torn plastic party balloon and a delicious squid ...

A pygmy whale died after it became stranded on a beach in Jupiter on Friday morning. According to Loggerhead Marine ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Four pygmy killer whales were rescued after being stranded on the beach near Tainan’s Qingshan Fishing Port at 8 a.m. on Sunday (Oct. 6). The Qingshan Inspection Station ...

Photo by the Center for Coastal Studies, taken under NMFS Permit #24359 Wildlife officials announced the cause of death of an endangered juvenile right whale that was found dead off the coast of ...

NOAA investigators have for the first time confirmed a link between the death of a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale and the Maine lobster industry. The whale, right whale #5120, was ...

A juvenile North Atlantic right whale that washed up on Martha’s Vineyard in January with fishing gear caught in its tail died from “chronic entanglement,” federal officials said Wednesday.

The right whales, which can weigh 150,000 pounds (68,000 kilograms), are vulnerable to lethal entanglement in the ropes commonly used in lobster fishing that connect lobster traps to surface buoys.