Bowhead whales are named for the massive bony skulls ... Back in 1973 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the federal agency responsible for predicting changes in the ...

Koala is a 16-year-old whale, named for her koala-shaped callosity pattern. Curlew is a 14-year-old, named for a scar on her ...

A program that provides coastal and ocean data to improve mariners' safety would shut down if the federal agency loses over a ...

Opinions up and down the North Carolina coast differ on the reasons behind rising numbers of Atlantic whale deaths, but marine researchers say the science is clear.

But beware the deception in one popular talking point, two or three whales per year will not harm the overall population. The overall population is NOAA’s estimate of the entire Eastern North Pacific ...

Hess focuses on the hunt for the bowhead whale. He shows us how it feels to stand in an open boat bobbing on a frozen sea, waiting to take a harpoon-gun shot at a creature the size of an 18-wheeler.

A dead 50-foot gray whale washed ashore in Huntington Beach on Friday, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal ...

Center for Coastal Studies Aerial Survey Team (NOAA Permit 25740-02) This is the second story in a series on Canada-U.S. cross-border measures to protect North Atlantic right whales. Off the tip ...

Survey experts with the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown say they’ve been thrilled to identify more 162 individual ...