By adamg - Mon, 08/26/2024 - 10:51am

Provincetown's Center for Coastal Studies reports a crew dispatched to Stellwagen Bank Saturday was unable to find Enso the humpback whale - reported by people on a whale-watching cruise on Saturday to have fishing line wrapped around its tail - but says they are not concerned about the whale's health immediately. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 08/25/2024 - 11:51am

Hope Cole reports that on a whale-watch cruise to Stellwagen Bank, people spotted a humpback whale in distress - rope from some fishing gear wrapped around its tail. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 5:07pm

Mark Garfinkle has been chronicling the breaching exploits of Shambhu, the juvenile humpback, who has been enjoying the outer harbor, between Deer Island and Castle Island, the past few days.

By adamg - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 9:15pm

One day after it dismissed a lawsuit by some Nantucket residents against wind turbines now being installed south of their island, a federal appeals court dismissed a similar lawsuit by the president of a solar-energy company who has a summer home there. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 04/25/2024 - 2:40pm

A federal appeals court yesterday tossed a lawsuit by a group of Nantucket residents who say the wind turbines now being built off their island will kill endangered right whales. Read more.

By adamg - Sun, 08/07/2022 - 12:44pm

Paul Nutting Jr. watched one of those humpback whales that have been cruising the coast of late having some fun in Boston Harbor this morning - like right off Castle Island: Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 07/23/2022 - 12:15pm

Spending some time down in Plymouth in recent days, Mary Ellen made a point of getting down to Manomet early each morning to watch the humpback whales enjoying a breakfast buffet just offshore.

By adamg - Fri, 06/11/2021 - 9:47pm

The Cape Cod Times reports on the lobster diver who was briefly mouthed up by a humpback whale before it spit him out.

Michael Packard reports he was a modern-day Jonah for roughly 30 to 40 seconds.

By adamg - Tue, 08/06/2019 - 9:53am

WCVB shows video of a whale feeding and breaching near Deer Island yesterday.

By adamg - Fri, 09/21/2018 - 11:48am

State Police report on the 25-foot-long carcass. The New England Aquarium reports the carcass is that of a whale that had earlier washed up on a beach in Cohasset. This sort of wandering-whale-carcass thing has happened before.

Obligatory Oregon exploding-whale video.

By adamg - Tue, 08/28/2018 - 4:50pm
By adamg - Sun, 08/26/2018 - 2:01pm

LauMalo83 watched a whale off Spectacle Island today. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 05/04/2018 - 6:54pm

Good Morning Gloucester has some photos of feeding right whales this morning.

By adamg - Sat, 04/23/2016 - 6:07pm

Mark Garfinkel took a number of photos of a right whale in Nahant Bay this week. And a seal.

By adamg - Sat, 07/18/2015 - 10:06am

The Ocean Alliance of Gloucester and Olin College of Needham have teamed up on a drone-based tool for taking vital signs from whales without shooting them with darts from loud motorboats. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 05/28/2013 - 11:01am

WHDH reports on the possibly injured humpback whale that started to swim into the harbor until it was gently ushered back out to sea.

By adamg - Sun, 10/21/2012 - 9:21am

Good Morning Gloucester has numerous exclusive photos, should you have the desire to see a dead whale on rocks;

By adamg - Fri, 10/12/2012 - 10:42pm

Noah Sachs forwards a link to these photos, taken by his friend Lars, who was out on the harbor today and took a series of shots as they got closer to