New England Aquarium

After closing its doors for four months during the pandemic, the New England Aquarium reopens Thursday with new coronavirus safety policies in place. Reservations are required for visitors, who will be screened for coronavirus symptoms upon entry. Masks are required for anyone over the age of five and encouraged for children over the age of two. Certain exhibits have been…

After closing its doors for four months during the pandemic, the New England Aquarium reopens Thursday with new coronavirus safety policies in place.

Sue O’Connell sat down with Patty Schilling, supervisor of marine mammals at the New England Aquarium, to talk about how differently the animals have been acting during the aquarium’s closure and new ways people at home can experience the aquarium without being there.

As Boston prepares to enter Phase 3 of reopening on Monday, two of the city’s most popular attractions are getting ready to welcome back visitors. NBC10 Boston got a first look inside the preparations at the Boston Children’s Museum and New England Aquarium. “I am so excited to welcome back our visitors,” New England Aquarium President and CEO Vikki...

As Boston prepares to enter phase three of reopening on Monday, two of the city’s most popular attractions are getting ready to welcome back visitors for the first time since closing down in March.

The New England Aquarium will reopen its doors to the public on July 16, but with much smaller crowds and other changes designed to keep visitors safe from the new coronavirus. The aquarium closed on March 13, as the coronavirus pandemic brought all non-essential businesses to a close in Massachusetts. But on Monday, Boston will join the rest of the…

Humans can’t always recognize each other in face masks, so imagine the confusion that wild animals in captivity must feel.

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.

Kelly Kryc of the New England Aquarium talks with Sue O’Connell about how plastic is impacting ocean life and changes people can make to encourage sustainability.

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 great white shark was caught feeding on a dead Minke whale off Duxbury, Massachusetts, on Labor Day.

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...