A truck passes along U.S. Highway 64 in northeastern North Carolina, where the N.C. Department of Transportation is set to ...

Humans weren’t the only creatures capturing headlines and airtime in 2024. We saw freedom-starved emus, majestic Murrells Inlet peacocks and the ...

The endangered whales are North Atlantic right whales, which number fewer than 400 and are vulnerable to ship collisions and ...

The current population of the North Atlantic right whale stands at less than 400 as the species has grown increasingly ...

Three critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the United States’ eastern seaboard this month, a number that researchers say is "devastating ...

A third endangered North Atlantic right whale has been reported entangled in fishing gear within one week, this time off the coast of North Carolina. Two of the whales are so seriously injured they ...

Japan said its recent stock surveys confirmed a sufficient recovery of fin whale populations in the North Pacific. Officials said 30 of the whales — half of the quota of 60 — were caught this ...

A humpback whale that had been thrilling boaters off Newport Beach, Ca., for several days breached for a prolonged period Sunday, revealing that the mammal is hardly free and thriving.

In November, another mom-calf pair were spotted by a boater north of Charleston off Cape Romain, South Carolina. Right whales were assigned their name from being the right whale to hunt throughout ...

Whale meat in Japan was an affordable source of protein for the country’s malnourished population in the years following World War II, with annual consumption peaking at 233,000 tons in 1962.