"Anything and everything we can learn is in service of helping the next set of animals hopefully avoid this fate." Crowds ...

Scientists have spotted the first endangered North Atlantic right whale headed south for the winter off the Outer Banks, and they’re warning boaters to heed speed reduction rules to protect the ...

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is a baleen whale species that inhabits waters off the East Coast of the United States and Canada. During the summer, these whales migrate north to ...

The North Atlantic right whale pair was seen by boaters, beach-goers and high-rise residents from Vero Beach to Stuart on Saturday, Jan. 11, and Sunday, Jan. 12, according to witnesses ...

The North Atlantic right whale is one of the world’s most endangered whales. Once common along the eastern U.S. seaboard, the whale was hunted to near-extinction by the 1750s. While no longer pursued ...

Two 80-ton snowbirds that are wintering off Florida made appearances off the Treasure Coast over the weekend. The North Atlantic right whale pair was seen by boaters, beach-goers and high-rise ...

Capt. Bobby Kelly of Gulf Shores Fishing Charter got to witness something spectacular recently as he headed out into the waters off Perdido Key near Orange Beach, Alabama. “Once we got close ...

The presence of a newborn calf this far north is highly uncommon. An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted off the coast of New York City last week on February 3.

1 to April 30 annually. Lethal entanglement in lobster fishing gear is one of the biggest threats to the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers less than 380 and is in decline. The other major ...

North Atlantic right whales were subject to "Yankee whaling," which ended around 1910, he said. Given the animals' slow rate of reproduction, the small number of whales that weren't hunted were ...