In 2000, University of Maine graduate student Amanda Leland began a seemingly straightforward restoration project. She transported 24,000 young sea urchins, which are native to the Gulf of Maine, to an area where overharvesting had caused them to

Endangered right whales have a new safe haven near Canadian shores, thanks to some work by an ex-pat Canuck scientist at the New England Aquarium and a team from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia.

Whaling fleets nearly wiped out North Atlantic right whales last century. Now these huge mammals are threatened by other human behavior -- big ships, fishing gear and entanglement in federal bureaucracy.

A rare sighting of Southern Right whales on their annual migration journey. Whale watchers had to bundle up and face icy Autumn weather as the whales returned to Patagonia. These waters are the breeding grounds for the southern right. But they only breed

An entangled humpback whale calf was freed from approximately 150 feet of rope on Sunday by the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) disentanglement team.

How does a parasite found in kitty litter get into whales and dolphins? By hitching a ride down the sewage pipe and into anchovy guts, say researchers. Gloeta Massie and Michael Black of California Polytechnic State University say this could explain why

According to a recent report from Iceland's Marine Research Institute on numbers of Minke whales in Icelandic waters, the minke stock has declined by 24 percent since 2001.

Crew members of a Japanese whale research ship embezzled a large amount of meat from whales caught during their activities in the Antarctic Ocean, Greenpeace Japan said Thursday. The Fisheries Agency has launched an investigation into the claim

Makah judge deferred prosecution for five tribal members who killed a gray whale.The court was unable to seat a jury for trial in Neah Bay on tribal charges of animal cruelty and discharging a firearm. Most of the 200 potential jurors were related to the

New England Aquarium researcher Monica Zani believes she is the first person ever to see the world's rarest whale, the North Atlantic right, give birth, and the photos of that experience have now been released. An experience the world waited over two year