It’s a hyper-modern problem on social media: A video or image of an animal doing something seemingly unbelievable in the wild pops up on your feed, only for you to realize it is, in fact, unbelievable ...

A viral video claiming to show a whale calf nursing was confirmed as AI-generated, underscoring the challenge of wildlife misinformation. Meanwhile, researchers and volunteers are documenting alarming ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) announced its plans to auction low-number Right Whale and Roseate Tern license plates in support of marine conservation efforts. The auction ...

Garcia said right whales have been traditionally thought of as a conservation challenge in New England, but right whales are found all along the East Coast. "Using passive acoustic data and ...

Every year beginning in October, thousands of humpback whales start to leave their warm nurseries in the Eastern Tropical Pacific—an ocean stretch spanning the west coast of Mexico to the northern tip ...

This past October, AWI representatives attended back-to-back annual meetings of the Ropeless Consortium and the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts ...

Northern bottlenose whale populations have struggled to rebound, even though commercial whaling was outlawed in their habitats more than 50 years ago. Long-term monitoring shows that one population of ...

A new study has identified whale shark stranding hotspots in Indonesia and linked them to seasonal ocean conditions, offering scientists a clearer picture of when and where risks are highest. The ...

ITHACA, N.Y. –Using underwater microphones and machine learning (ML), Cornell University researchers have developed a new method to estimate North Atlantic right whale numbers — offering a potentially ...