MAYO: Look at that mouth open. God knows... His mouth is wide open. Whoa! NARRATOR: Right whales are baleen whales that filter plankton, microorganisms adrift in the ocean currents.

But the whale felt the difference in its mouth right away and spat the pelican out, letting the bird escape. If the whale in the video had accidentally swallowed a dolphin, it likely would have ...

A rare North Atlantic right whale calf spotted off the coast of South Carolina is expected to die after its head, mouth and lips were split open, likely by a boat propeller, officials said.

A 15-year-old North Atlantic right whale named Nimbus was spotted off the Georgia coast on Jan. 20, 2023 with 375 feet of fishing line entangled in his mouth and dragging behind his flukes.

This feeding style would match that used by modern bowhead and right whales, which swim with their mouth open near the ocean surface to strain small prey from the seawater.

Right whale No. 5132 was spotted last Monday, Dec. 16, about 60 miles east of North Carolina’s Outer Banks with several fishing lines wrapped around its head and mouth, the National Oceanic and ...

RELATED: First North Atlantic right whale mom and calf spotted in Cape Cod Bay According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , #5110 was first spotted with the entanglement on ...

Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary origins of the pygmy right whale. Researchers have finally settled a decades-long dispute about the evolutionary ...

Endangered Atlantic right whales are venturing to new areas, researchers have found in a recently released report, and many do not have speed protections on vessels.

A rare whale has been spotted close to the shoreline of Boston, directly by the entrance to the harbor. The North Atlantic right whale — an endangered species with just about 370 whales left in ...