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Residents of Wellfleet met Thursday night to discuss possible preventative measures following a fatal shark attack earlier this month in the town.

Seventy-five percent of the Earth is covered in ocean. It's not asking too much to defend the first few hundred feet from creatures that can kill us.

Retired Navy SEAL Don Shipley is spending his retirement defending Americans from another danger: the danger of people who pretend to be heroes.

A driver is being charged after crashing into a Wareham Department of Natural Resources vehicle as officials were trying to locate a seal.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) _ Harvard University is retiring the official shield of its law school following complaints over its ties to an 18th-century slaveholder. The university's governing body announced the decision Monday, supporting a campus committee's previous recommendation to remove the shield...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) _ A committee made up of faculty, students, alumni, and staff has recommended that Harvard Law School ditch its seal because of its ties to an 18th century slaveholder. The committee announced Friday that it recommended to the university's governing body that the seal be dropped...

North Atlantic gray seals can often be seen on Massachusetts shorelines, but will likely be spotted more frequently over the next few months. NOAA says it's gray seal pupping season, and mother seals and their pups will be spotted on beaches, sometimes for days at a time...

When you look at the New Bedford City Seal, you'll see an old whaling ship in a harbor with a lighthouse amidst a backdrop of historic Old New Bedford. It includes the Latin phrase, "Lucen Diffundo" which translates to "We diffuse the light" connecting with New Bedford whale oil. And when you consider the Town of Dartmouth's official seal, nobody around knows how the town came

Officials say two Cape Cod beaches closed after visitors spotted a great white shark biting a seal and spitting it back out onto the beach.

The Buttonwood Park Zoo has lost a member of it's animal family. Sandy the seal was put down after suffering from liver disease for several months. Zoo staff members had been providing treatments to the male Atlantic harbor seal to try and improve his health and assist in pain relief for the animal...