A local celebrity recently surfaced for the first time this summer: Old Thom the Orca. Old Thom was spotted off Stellwagen Bank National Marine National Marine Sanctuary on Sunday about 20 miles east ...

An orca was recently spotted swimming with a pod of dolphins off the coast of Massachusetts in a rare killer whale encounter caught on video. Donna Piraino, of the charter Go Girl Fish, was out ...

The dead right whale was a female. Scientists say they worry especially about deaths of females because the species is ...

A North Atlantic right whale often seen in Cape Cod Bay – and once responsible for a canal closure – has died. Here’s what ...

Seventy-seven years after its recording, WHOI recovered what could be the first humpback whale song captured on audio. It was labeled "fish noises." ...

On Friday, the Trump administration rolled back protections for a marine national monument off the coast of Cape Cod.

(WPRI) — There are believed to only be roughly 380 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, and on Saturday, 33 of those whales were spotted in Cape Cod Bay. The CCS noted that Saturday’s ...

A North Atlantic right whale was spotted off Cape Cod in late October, earlier than usual for this endangered species. Right whale observer Peter Flood was stunned when he saw the right whale from the ...

CAPE COD, Mass. - A group of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachussets, on Saturday. The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) observed 33 out ...

The news comes one year after documentation that the North Atlantic right whale population increased 2.1% between 2023 and 2024 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working ...