After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right ...

Scientists had believed Southern right whales have a lifespan of about 70 years, but a new study shows that endangered ...

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

Conservation groups are concerned that the endangered right whale is vulnerable to extinction as the Trump administration ...

By Edward Carver Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more than ...

Some whales are more than 100 years old, smashing previously estimated life expectancies, according to new research.

The southern right whale’s recovery – there are approximately 20,000 individuals today – is one of the world’s great conservation success stories. The two Northern Hemisphere right whale ...

WASHINGTON — A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year for a species threatened with extinction. The whales are ...

He reported from Nantucket and Cape Cod Bay, Mass. The North Atlantic right whale is highly endangered, its survival as a species in doubt. There are only about 370 of these dark, bulbous baleen ...