Of course, life near NYC isn’t always smooth sailing. For one, whales have some competition for their favorite food: Commercial fishing operations along the eastern seaboard are now targeting ...

In a paper penned three years later, Scammon paints a vivid picture of killer whales, from their “beautifully smooth and glossy skin” to their “somewhat military aspect,” even including ...

When we arrived, the boat slowed down, and moments later, we spotted the smooth back of our first gray whale gliding through the water. All six of us shot to our feet, cheering at our first ...

New York City’s waterways are running red as fatal boat strikes become a growing threat to the booming marine life population — a sick reality that killed a celebrity whale and dolphin so far ...

Whales emblazon the island’s flag ... In April, I boarded the Shearwater and set out into Cape Cod Bay. The water was smooth, blown glass under marching ranks of cloud. Apart from their calving ...

Boaters off the New Hampshire coast have a whale of a tail to tell after a humpback whale slammed into a fishing boat and a pair of teen brothers caught the whole thing on video, then rescued the ...

Another dead whale was discovered in the waters of the San Francisco Bay, the fifth creature found in the area in less than a month, officials said. The female gray whale drifted overnight on ...