As if soaring above the brilliant blue ocean isn’t spectacular enough, the New England Aquarium’s aerial survey team recently ...

What researchers spotted off Cape Cod and the Vineyard recently is something they almost never see in these waters.

Last month, a blue whale was spotted off the coast in waters near Rhode Island by the New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life — an “unusual occurrence” according to a NEAQ press ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been spotted not far off the coast of Massachusetts.

The sighting marks the first time endangered blue whales have been recorded in this area of Massachusetts waters.

Rare sightings of massive Blue whale near the Massachusetts coast have surprised scientists. Researchers suspect shifting ...

Changing ocean conditions making whale prey scarce are causing the mammals to stop singing, a recent study has found. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Cascadia Research ...

The waters of the West Coast are falling silent. Somewhere deep in the Pacific, off the sunset-lit cliffs of Big Sur and the fog-wrapped bluffs of Mendocino, the largest animal ever known to live on ...

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, ...

It’s hard to picture a creature so immense that a person could stand inside one of its arteries, yet that’s the reality of the blue whale—the largest animal ever to live on Earth. A detail like that ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...