"These whales are not statistics." Officials raise grave concerns after spotting another whale in distress off US coast: ...

Offshore wind-energy opposition group ACK For Whales has launched a new challenge against two proposed Nantucket-area ...

Although gray whales have been extinct from the Atlantic for over 200 years, one was spotted off the Nantucket coast last week.

Scientists with the New England Aquarium had been flying 30 miles south of Nantucket in Massachusetts when they came upon what they described as an “unusual” looking whale, according to a ...

So went a popular toast when Nantucket, Massachusetts, was still the center of the whaling industry in the early 19th century. But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had ...

Last month, the Martha’s Vineyard buoy operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution re-detected the presence of right ...

Endangered North Atlantic right whales are approaching extinction. An unusual mortality event was declared for North Atlantic ...

In December, the right whale Chiminea (No. 4040) was seen gear-free near Nantucket. (This story has been updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) Dinah Voyles Pulver ...

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...

Nauset, a 31-year-old North Atlantic right whale, was seen by aerial observers about 5 miles off Wellfleet with a calf.

Whales can also be tracked via the Whale Alert ... southeast of New York; southwest of Nantucket, Massachusetts; east of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mariners are requested to avoid or transit ...

Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket president Pam Murphy is worried about the Trump administration’s apparent desire to weaken ...