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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

There are at least 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered off New England in an unusual sighting. Family vacationing in Grand Turks islands films Debris from Space X flying overhead The Dodge ...

and “Loki,” a whale who has only been seen in New England waters. The scientists conduct these types of aerial surveys to determine trends in where right whales appear so that they can help ke ...

The whales, which give birth off Georgia’s coast in the winter, are nearing extinction: Just 370 remain, and vessel strikes are one of their leading causes of death. Marine industry groups ...