Two rare, endangered blue whales were spotted by researchers in New England waters, about 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod earlier this month. Researchers Orla O’Brien and Amy Warren from the New England Aquarium surveyed the vast Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to document the region’s biodiversity and count the number of animals living and feeding in...

The New England Aquarium has a new resident: a bright blue lobster. The Boston aquarium was recently gifted the colorful crustacean that was caught in the wild by Patriot Seafoods. It’s on display in the aquarium’s Isle of Shoals exhibit after a 30-day quarantine to ensure it’s healthy. The aquarium says incidence of blue lobsters in the wild is...

The blue lobster, found just once in every 2 million lobsters in the wild, is on view at the Aquarium’s Isle of Shoals exhibit — just in time for February school vacation week, the New England Aquarium said.

An aquarium and an engineering firm in Massachusetts are partnering on a project to better protect whales by monitoring them from space. New England Aquarium of Boston and Draper of Cambridge say whale conservation needs new, higher-tech solutions to protect whales from extinction. So, the pair are working together using data from sources such as satellites, sonar and radar to…

The New England Aquarium says 45 endangered sea turtles that stranded on Cape Cod are headed for Georgia and Florida. The aquarium says the turtles were medically stabilized before being flown south on Monday by a volunteer. The facility says the transfer of the turtles is important to make room at its sea turtle hospital in Quincy.

The season’s first cold-stunned sea turtles were rescued from Cape Cod beaches over the weekend. A spokeswoman for Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary says juvenile Kemp’s ridley turtles were found Saturday at beaches in Brewster and Eastham. A third was found Sunday on Great Island in Wellfleet.

Is the general public beginning to make a connection between the negative aspects of climate change and their recreational choices? New England Aquarium official Kelly Kryc says it’s starting to set in.

Police in Boston say a missing woman has been found safe. Sixty-seven-year-old Kim Doan of Connecticut had last been seen just after 4 p.m. Wednesday at the IMAX theater at the New England Aquarium.

For the second time in 10 days, a young minke whale has turned up dead along the Massachusetts coastline. The body of the male whale was found in the surf of the Humarock section of Scituate Monday afternoon.

A bronze sculpture of a sea turtle in a Boston neighborhood is being relocated after some parents said it was too hot for children to sit on earlier this summer. The sculpture of “Myrtle the Turtle” won’t be going far. City officials said Monday it will be moving to the garden area of the Myrtle Street Playground, where it currently...

A young humpback whale has been spotted feeding and napping at the mouth of the Boston Harbor in recent days, New England Aquarium officials said Tuesday. The whale, whose gender is unknown, is likely feeding on schools of forage fish that spend much of the late summer in the harbor. It is good news that the young whale is feeding...

A directive for new protections for endangered right whales represents an “absurd federal overreach” that places an unfair burden on Maine’s signature lobster fishery, Gov. Janet Mills said. She ordered the state Department of Marine Resources to draft an alternative plan that would reduce the impact on lobstermen.

A directive for new protections for endangered right whales represents an “absurd federal overreach” that places an unfair burden on Maine’s signature lobster fishery, Gov. Janet Mills said. She ordered the state Department of Marine Resources to draft an alternative plan that would reduce the impact on lobstermen.

According to the Boston Globe, the city of Boston is weighing options regarding a potentially dangerous new sculpture at a Beacon Hill playground.

According to the Boston Globe, the city of Boston is weighing options regarding a potentially dangerous new sculpture at a Beacon Hill playground.

Whale researchers in New England believe they’ve found a new way to measure the amount of stress felt by whales when they experience traumas such as entanglements in fishing gear, and they say the technique could help protect the massive sea creatures from extinction. The scientists, with the New England Aquarium in Boston, said the method involves measuring stress hormones...

A prominent marine mammal scientist is speaking at the New England Aquarium to explain why saving the endangered North Atlantic right whale is important for the health of the ocean. Scott Kraus’ lecture Tuesday presented by Women Working for Oceans at the aquarium’s IMAX Theatre in Boston is entitled “On the Brink: Saving Our Right Whale, Saving Our Ocean.”

A stranded adult white-sided dolphin has been successfully pushed back into Boston Harbor after spending the night in shallow water with another dolphin that died. The New England Aquarium says the dolphin had been in shallow water off Winthrop’s Coughlin Park on Sunday.