Let the New England Aquarium’s Simons IMAX Theatre be a time machine to take you back 82 million years to a world where dinosaurs ruled the earth and ferocious reptiles ruled the sea. National Geographic’s new giant-screen film Sea Monsters 3D: A Prehistoric Adventure brings to life the extraordinary marine reptiles of the dinosaur age [...]
If the Aquarium’s penguin staff look sleep deprived, they have good reason as they have hatched and raised nine new penguin chicks over the summer. That is a record for the Aquarium. The first penguin chicks of the season were two little blue penguins (native to Australia) that have already joined the Aquarium’s penguin exhibit. [...]
The Comcast Network’s morning show “Your Morning” will be shot before a live audience at the New England Aquarium on Wednesday, August 22 from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Audience members will receive free breakfast and the chance to win exciting prizes along with the possibility of appearing on the show’s broadcast with host Greg [...]
On August 20, 11 critically endangered sea turtles will be released back to the saltwater home they haven’t seen for more than nine months. The event will take place on Dowses Beach in the village of Osterville in Barnstable, Massachusetts. In total, nine Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, one green sea turtle, and one loggerhead sea [...]
A harbor porpoise named Sandy, which was rescued earlier this spring and rehabilitated by the New England Aquarium’s Marine Animal Rescue Team, will be released back into the wild from the Aquarium’s whale watch vessel at sea Wednesday evening. The porpoise was rescued by the Cape Cod Stranding Network in Barnstable on March 5th from [...]
Boaters in Marblehead have been expecting many Canadian entries for the start of a three day yacht race to Nova Scotia that launches this Sunday, but Thursday they had an uninvited and very large Canadian guest who arrived early for the big event. At about 1 p.m., a seven and a half foot hooded seal [...]
A forty foot whale that has been caught off the rocky shore of Manchester-by-the-Sea since the weekend will undergo a necropsy Tuesday led by the New England Aquarium. In the hopes of determining the cause of death, biologists will start in the early morning as they attempt to conduct a full animal autopsy and remove [...]
Four of the world’s most endangered sea turtles rescued from Cape Cod last November are now healthy enough to be released back into the ocean. However, since local waters are currently much too cold for sea turtles, the New England Aquarium / Sovereign Bank Marine Animal Rescue Team has arranged for the juvenile Kemp’s Ridley [...]
Marine biologists conducting an autopsy on an endangered sei (say) whale that had washed up in Manchester-by-the Sea have determined that the forty-five foot animal was struck by a vessel while it was still alive. Scientists found eight broken vertebrae in the mid-section of the whale’s spine as well as a fractured front flipper. Early [...]
The young humpback whale that was found dead in Rockport, Massachusetts on Monday evening died from major blunt trauma to his chest, neck and head. Initial necropsy results of the thirty-foot baleen whale showed that it had sustained widespread bruising, swelling, and hemorrhaging of soft tissues throughout that area. The dissection also revealed extensive bleeding [...]