BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population ...

Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right ...

A group of scientists saw over 75 North Atlantic right whales gathered in the Gulf of Maine. Here's what we know.

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

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

Right whales have been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act since 1970. The North Atlantic right whale population is estimated at just 372, only 70 of which are breeding females.

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

Each right whale has a unique pattern of callosities that scientists use to identify individual whales, which is an invaluable tool in tracking population size and health. Curlew and Koala were so ...

NOAA has withdrawn a proposal to expand protection of endangered right whales that give birth off the Georgia coast.

The move in the waning days of the Biden administration will leave the endangered North Atlantic right whale vulnerable to ...