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The New England Aquarium counted fewer North Atlantic right whale calves than expected this spring, an ominous sign for a species on the verge of extinction.

Some observers say whales are returning in larger numbers off the coast of Massachusetts this year.

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A pair of endangered North Atlantic Right Whales are struggling off the coast of Massachusetts and experts fear neither will survive.

There appear to be more North Atlantic right whales than during the last head count four years ago.

Everyone should try to take in a whale watch off the Massachusetts coast at least once. Each whale watch is unique.

A dead young humpback whale was found along the shoreline of East Beach in Westport.

In spring, the endangered North Atlantic right whales migrate north to their feeding and mating grounds in the Gulf of Maine and eastern Canadian Atlantic.

Environmentalists and opponents of offshore wind are demanding a federal investigation into the deaths of whales that washed ashore in New York and New Jersey.

Sharks usually get all the press, but they are being upstaged by whales seen swimming and breaching off Manomet Point in Plymouth.