While others save sea turtles and dolphins, this group based in southeastern Massachusetts rescues strange-looking fish with ...

The young whale, dubbed "Oil Change," was seen repeatedly off Cape Cod, and would entertain whale watchers with breaches and ...

A routine January flight over Cape Cod Bay turned up numbers – and whales – local researchers rarely see. One day, one survey ...

There are only about 380 North Atlantic right whales left on the planet. The post Scientists spot dozens of endangered right ...

A gathering of North Atlantic right whales off Massachusetts over the weekend appears to have set a new monthly record.

Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for ...

In the middle of Nantucket island, the U.S. Geological Survey drilled a test well to see how far down the groundwater went.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An unprecedentedly bad year for beached ...

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will host a lecture on white sharks Sept. 18. Dr. Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program will speak about his research on white sharks off the ...