Stay 500 yards away, about the length of five football fields. This regulation applies to vessels, aircraft, drones and watercraft such as surfboards, kayaks and jet skis. Any vessel within 500 yards ...

A group of about 75 endangered North Atlantic right whales was spotted off the western edge of Jeffreys Ledge. That's about ...

This means at its peak, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus will be shown to the south and Mars will be north and west. The planet ...

If any of the whales become entangled in Maine gear, it could worsen regulations lobstermen say are already too strict.

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

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to ...

NASSAU COUNTY, FLORIDA, Fla. — The right whale "Grand Teton" was seen with a newborn calf off Amelia Island on Thursday.

The United States Department of Commerce and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week announced that they ...

A proposal to lower speed limits on waterways — boat strikes kill a large number of the whales — was dropped in face of next administration.

BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population ...