Critics of proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act say the move could affect efforts to save species facing extinction ...

Thar she blows! Scientists say moisture from the endangered right whales blowholes yields important health info that could ...

The extinction of the right whale, or indeed any other whale species, would have significant environmental impacts. Researchers make worrisome discovery after observing critically endangered whale ...

How do you give a whale a health checkup? Scientists have been collecting respiratory droplets from North Atlantic right ...

Officials have left the whale on the beach since Sunday, because at more than 100,000 pounds it is simply too big to move ...

The proposed changes, coupled with the mass firing of dedicated staff at US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service, ...

Aerial surveyors spotted four critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off Ocracoke Island, and operators of vessels of all sizes are asked to travel no faster than 10 knots through the area.

A local nonprofit said the 52-ton mammal is “far too big, awkward and heavy to remove.” A town official later said it could ...

Across America, a handful of extraordinary national parks give travelers the rare chance to see endangered animals thriving ...

That whale was towed for hours to a shipyard, placed on a flatbed truck, and brought to a landfill for a necropsy. Its ...

Scientists and Nantucket officials are trying to figure out what to do about a huge whale that washed up on the island.

The town of Nantucket has announced how it plans to deal with a 52-ton dead sperm whale that washed up on the Massachusetts ...