Whales

The NC Museum of Natural Sciences' special exhibition on blue whales will open this weekend for the next six months.

Marine mammal experts on North Carolina’s coast want to combat misinformation about the cause of strandings. It comes after two sperm whales were stranded and died along the state’s coast in December.

A graduate student’s research has uncovered plastics in tissue samples of 32 marine animals, including some from North Carolina.

Boats and cargo ships in the waters of North Carolina and other Southern states are exceeding speed limits in areas designed to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, a new report from a global non-profit group has found.

In 2009, a 30-foot long Right whale became stranded on Cape Lookout, N.C. For those who've never been, Cape Lookout is a remote beach, reachable only by…

New research from Duke University looks at how whales are impacted by military sonar used in underwater training exercises. The study was conducted off…