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January 24, 2024 | 12:38 PM

Learn about the 43-million-year-old Whale that Walked on Land on WITF TV

By Khamelia Henderson
February 25, 2023 | 7:53 AM

Dead whales on the east coast fuel misinformation about offshore wind development

Sixteen humpback whales alone have stranded along the Atlantic coast this winter.

By Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky/WNYC and Kaitlyn Radde/NPR
June 13, 2021 | 9:31 AM

A lobster diver in Cape Cod says a Humpback Whale scooped him up and spat him out

A commercial lobster diver says he escaped relatively unscathed after nearly being swallowed by a humpback whale, in a biblical-sounding encounter that whale experts describe as rare but plausible.

By Rachel Treisman/NPR

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December 6, 2019 | 5:41 AM

Offshore Wind May Help The Planet — But Will It Hurt Whales?

By NPR/Fred Mogul
October 12, 2019 | 8:17 AM

How innovations in fishing technology could save the North Atlantic right whale

There are currently only about 410 North Atlantic right whales living in the wild.

By Jenn Stanley/WHYY