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A whale rarely seen in the area washed up on a Brooklyn beach earlier this week and later died, an animal conservation group said.

Federal officials say a yearling humpback whale off Maui has been freed from a life-threatening entanglement in mooring gear and a plastic trawling buoy.

A 54-foot male fin whale likely died and washed up on a New Jersey beach after being hit by a ship, an official said. The carcass washed ashore Sunday. An examination revealed a large impact on its right side, likely caused by a ship, Marine Mammal Stranding Center director Bob Schoelkopf told NJ.com. He said there also were several large...

The U.S. Navy will reevaluate the impacts of its training exercises on marine life in the wake of the deaths of two fin whales apparently fatally struck by a military vessel off the coast of San Diego earlier this year, the Center for Biological Diversity said Thursday.

In a move that’s been years in the making, five beluga whales are now calling New England home.

A humpback whale was found dead and beached at Barnegat Light, but finding out what happened to the whale will be a difficult task.

Archaeologists in Thailand unearthed a perfectly preserved 41-foot-long whale skeleton near the country’s capital.

Two fisherman were knocked overboard but recovered safely.

A high school senior in Southern California was flying his drone around a beach when he spotted something extraordinary.

A high school senior in Southern California was flying his drone around a beach when he spotted something extraordinary. A giant whale was swimming toward and then under a group of more than a dozen surfers sitting on their boards in waters near Dana Point, south of Los Angeles, on Monday. The surfers appeared largely oblivious to the massive mammal,...

Athletes from Quebramar Canoe Club were probably not expecting this when they jumped in the water.

It’s not America’s Top 40, but it’s a cutting edge song. Federal marine biologists for the first time have recorded singing by one of the rarest whales on the planet, the North Pacific right whale. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers used moored acoustic recorders to capture repeated patterns of calls made by male North Pacific right whales. It’s the...

It was high drama on the seas off the Jersey Shore Thursday when a whale capsized a fisherman’s boat and the two men aboard had to be rescued by a retired firefighter who happened to be nearby.

A blue whale washed ashore in Kamakura City, Japan. The National Museum of Nature and Science stated there is no record of this happening before in Japan.

A dead humpback whale that washed up on a beach in Queens may have been hit by a boat, a conservation group said.

A dead humpback whale washed up on Fire Island Sunday morning, the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society said.

A dead humpback whale washed up on Fire Island Sunday morning, the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society said.

A crew member on a whale watching boat in Dana Point used a drone Sunday to capture a baby humpback whale throwing a fit.

A 30-foot-long humpback whale stuck in Southern California’s Ventura Harbor made its way out Sunday morning. The 30-foot-long whale was first spotted swimming in the harbor around 3 p.m. Saturday, said harborman George Kabris. The whale could be seen swimming into boat slips and coming right up to the edges of the docks as dozens of people watched. Kabris said...

Marine biologists euthanized a 10-foot whale that stranded itself on the Bronx’s only beach.