Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If any beachgoers find an orange piece of plastic washed up on the shore, NOAA wants you to double-check. It may not be a floatie ...

Whales are among the largest and oldest animals on Earth. They can be found in every ocean and range in size from the small ...

GLOUCESTER – A group from Gloucester is using drones to tag whales from coast to coast. We first brought you their story last year, but since then their work has expanded. Ocean Alliance created data ...

SCITUATE, MASS. (WHDH) - NOAA researchers in Massachusetts asked for the public’s help this week in efforts to find a pair of missing devices used to study whales. The orange whale tags are about six ...

BOSTON - If you're walking along a Massachusetts beach, keep your eyes peeled: Scientists are asking the public to help them find "tags" they use to study large whales. Scientists at NOAA with the ...

Today, a research team has proposed a new reinforcement learning framework with autonomous drones to find sperm whales and predict where they will surface. Project CETI (Cetacean Translation ...

Researchers are asking for the public’s help to find a pair of missing research tags used to track and study large whales. The tags could wash up “anywhere” along the Massachusetts coast, the National ...

A fin whale is shown with a satellite tag attached. The new tag allows researchers to observe feeding events during dives. CREDIT Ladd Irvine, Marine Mammal Institute, Oregon State University Oregon ...