Because of the whales' precarious position, every death is especially tragic. Officials take bold action to prevent tragic ...

The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions ...

Whale watchers off the coast of Argentina got an amazing close-up recently, as a curious whale nudged their boat. Tour organizer Agustin Baraschi told Storyful he captured this video of what he said ...

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University of New Brunswick researchers had a hand in a new documentary series The Wild Ones that shows endangered North ...

This week on Ecolution, RTÉ's climate action podcast for young people, we take to the high seas to meet some amazing people ...

From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the first blue whale of the season, these events have stunned onlookers and ...

The calf is the 14th right whale since 2008 to be struck by a vessel in U.S. waters with an injury that led either to a death or an injury from which the animal was not likely to survive ...

With pregnant North Atlantic right whales weeks away from their winter migration southward to give birth, biologists who track the endangered marine mammals say 2024 has been a roller-coaster ride.

Right whale population. There are 372 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, according to the latest estimate released in October. That's a slight increase from previous years, but the ...

An annual population estimate found the whales’ numbers increased slightly last year to 372, up from 358 in 2020, according to the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium.

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...