But in 2023, a swimmer at Rockaway was bitten by a shark and badly injured. New York City officials responded by expanding ...

Humpback whales don’t often pop up in New York Harbor. The last celebrity cetacean visited in 2016 and stayed for about a week. Scientists say NYC0089, which hasn’t been spotted in several ...

New York City onlookers were surprised on Monday when a whale was spotted swimming under the Williamsburg Bridge on Monday, emerging from the surface.

"They've been hanging on by their flipper-tips for tens of decades." Experts baffled by unprecedented behavior of critically ...

Whale populations in New York Harbor are booming—here's why. A few cetaceans appeared in 2011, but now they're in the hundreds, surprising scientists and tourists alike.

Cruise ship drags dead whale into New York, prompting investigation. The collision with the 44-foot-long, endangered sei whale could have been avoided, experts said. May 9, 2024. 4 min.

NEW YORK — A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 44-foot dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said. The whale, identified as an endangered sei whale, ...

A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port on Saturday with a 44-foot endangered whale lying dead across its bow. A spokesperson for MSC Cruises said the whale was on the MSC Meraviglia, which ...

The waters off New York and New Jersey have seen a sudden upsurge in whale deaths this year. But our documentary has hit a nerve. Within the first 48 hours of it being online, over 20,000 people ...

Another humpback whale was spotted dead late Monday, floating near a shipping channel between New York and New Jersey, the 13th whale found in the two states in three months.

This is the story of a wildly ambitious science experiment to return Keiko to the ocean — while the world watched. A new limited podcast series from Serial Productions and the New York Times.