Move over Mick Jagger. There’s a new star in town. “Jagger” the whale is one of 19 North Atlantic right whales that have new names, as New England Aquarium scientists unveiled a slate of named whales ...

Any individual with a name like Peter Rabbit might be expected to crave carrots and cabbage, but there is now a bearer of the name that, instead, has a voracious appetite for zooplankton. The list was ...

A 3-year-old North Atlantic right whale male now swimming the sea may not have the moves like Mick Jagger, but he certainly has the lips. That's what's earned the animal, a member of a critically ...

It’s the annual naming day for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Scientists at the New England Aquarium have unveiled a new slate of named North Atlantic right whales — a ...

Scientists at the New England Aquarium are unveiling a new slate of North Atlantic right whale names, an annual tradition that helps researchers in the field identify the critically endangered animals ...

Meet Wall-E, Dumpling, Polaris, Peter Rabbit, and Hopscotch. They are five of the 20 Atlantic right whales recently named by scientists at the New England Aquarium as part of an annual tradition that ...

At the East Gate crossover on Tybee Island, residents of Tybee Island gathered with Chantal Audran, director of the Tybee Island Marine Science Center and Hermina Glass-Hill, for an opening ceremony ...

BOSTON – “Spindle, “Twister" and "Musketeer" are just three of the names given to 18 North Atlantic right whales this year by the New England Aquarium for the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium.

The Orange County coast draws all sorts of tourists this time of year, but some recent visitors are making a particularly big splash. A trio of sperm whales — believed to be adult males, each about 50 ...