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A team from the Center for Coastal Studies reached the whale and found rope caught in its mouth and wrapped around its body multiple times.

Provincetown-based responders helped save a small humpback whale entangled in fishing gear off the North Shore on Wednesday.

How do you give a whale a health checkup? Scientists have been collecting respiratory droplets from North Atlantic right whales, using petri-dish-carrying drones flying above their blowholes.

Officials have determined that a deceased sperm whale that washed up on the north shore of Nantucket on Sunday is too big to move for a necropsy.

The Marine Mammal Commission was created more than 50 years ago to ensure the Marine Mammal Protection Act is followed, and to provide independent, science-based oversight of federal activities that affect whales, dolphins, seals, and more.

Eighteen years ago, Rob Martin learned that his lobster gear had entangled a humpback whale. He made it his mission to prevent repeats of his experience by becoming a gear specialist for the federal government. Now Martin is among thousands of federal employees who have themselves become entangled in the Trump administration’s sweeping job cuts.

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses, and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient tropical grounds like Hawaii and the Caribbean, according to a new study.

Researchers say they don’t know why three whales died in such a short time period, but the deaths are unrelated.

O’Brien theorized that the whale may have traveled from the West Coast through waters north of Canada and down the Maine coast.

Massachusetts Lobstermen are looking for a new way to fish during an annual 3-month-long closure established to protect migrating whales. CAI’s Eve Zuckoff reports they’ve just been awarded a 1.2 million grant to develop technology on their own.