"It was wild." Captain makes once-in-a-lifetime sighting while scanning horizon off US coast: 'Everybody was screaming and ...

Researchers and conservationists remind the public to respect the whales’ space. It is illegal to approach a North Atlantic right whale within 500 yards without a federal research permit. Still, from ...

A rare run of bluefin tuna off North Carolina's Outer Banks has pier anglers hooking giants just yards from the beach.

PROVINCETOWN - Endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted off the coast of Cape Cod over the last week. The ...

By 2010, the population had grown to about 480 North Atlantic right whales. Since that time, however, other human threats have caused the population to once again decline. The two primary threats ...

Entanglement in fishing gear is a leading threat to endangered whales ... And in fact, for some species — like North Atlantic right whales — entanglements are not only impeding their recovery, but ...

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic gyre. A weed mass this small may shelter thousands of ...