Around half of all the world’s North Atlantic right whales are currently swimming in Massachusetts waters. Survey experts with the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown say they’ve been ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Sally Mizroch was pretty sure she'd seen whale No. 183 before. Its distinctive tail fluke was all white, with a few black Marilyn Monroe-type spots. She entered its features into her ...

The launch of new satellites later this year could make the job of identifying stranded whales from space even more effective. J. Findlay Imagery/Getty Images To an eye in the sky, a stranded whale on ...