"They've been hanging on by their flipper-tips for tens of decades." Experts baffled by unprecedented behavior of critically ...

The whales give birth off the southeastern U.S. in the winter and spring and migrate north to New England and Canada to feed.

The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect North Atlantic right whales from lethal collisions ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts State Division of Marine Fisheries have launched a new program to track where and when the ...

From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the ...

The consequences of the whales’ shifting habitats are dire: Under threat from fishing gear entanglements and vessel strikes, ...

Effective and noninvasive whale and biodiversity monitoring is now possible with the help of citizen scientists, opening up ...

The whale is the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers only about 370. The whales give birth off the southeastern U.S. in the winter and spring and migrate north to New England and Canada to feed.