One of the few remaining individuals of the rarest whale species in the world is now "likely to die" after becoming severely entangled, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said ...

State officials want to know whether the Maine lobstering rope recently found tangled around a dead North Atlantic right whale actually came from Maine waters — or from those belonging to the federal ...

Federal authorities said a humpback whale found tangled in a fishing line this week near Unalaska was freed on Friday. The roughly 32-foot 2-year-old male whale was first reported in distress Monday ...