Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like clockwork — and perhaps with a touch of holiday showboating — North Atlantic right whales have begun their annual return to ...

CAPE COD BAY, Mass. -- A North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted in the Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts on March 27. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution posted the footage to YouTube ...

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

Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have begun their annual migration to Cape Cod Bay. Entanglements and vessel strikes are the leading causes of death for the species, which has a ...

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

The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing ...