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 ...

On Friday 20 June, seismic company CGG received an "Opportunity to Modify and Resubmit" (OMR) notice from the offshore regulator NOPSEMA.The offshore ...

Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and safeguard them from plastic trash, noise pollution and ship strikes.

Rare Whale Sighting in Plett Waters Leaves Experts Astounded A recent marine sighting off the coast of Plettenberg Bay has captured the attention of leading South African marine mammal scientists, who ...

Bryde’s whales — pronounced “broodus” — are a member of the baleen family, which also includes gray whales and pygmy right whales, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

In a paper by Ross et al. (1975) it was suggested that there may be an inshore movement of pygmy right whale juveniles in spring and summer along the Southern African coast, which may constitute ...

A pod of more than 60 orcas, better known as killer whales, have been spotted attacking and killing an 18-metre-long pygmy blue whale off Western Australia's coast, in what is being described as ...

Whale watchers caught a glimpse of what they believed was an albino pygmy killer whale while out swimming with its pod off the Hawaiian coast on March 28. Travis Woo, who is a safety swimmer for a ...

“It’s one of four species that we call Blackfish — because they’re all kind of black in color and hard to distinguish,” said Dr. Jessica Jacob, assistant professor at Hawaii Pacific University. “Based ...

Researchers are conducting testing on a pygmy sperm whale that washed ashore in Pismo Beach last week. Officials with The Marine Mammal Center (TMMC) say it’s rare for these types of whales to ...