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No dorsal fin. V-shaped blow. Almost extinct. Right Whale Day brings a rare species into focus — before it’s too late.
A pair of North Atlantic right whales seen off Florida in the Gulf may be headed back north after being seen in Bimini in the ...
NOAA research shows it would take the average tree more than 1500 years to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide a whale can ...
Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.
There was a giant reminder of a species in danger in front of the New England Aquarium Thursday. Lessons were out of the water in celebration of the third annual Massachusetts Right Whale Day. “Right ...
A Cape Cod marine rescue team has been working to disentangle a North Atlantic right whale from a fishing gear entanglement ...
They're the biggest fish in the sea — and found in warm oceans all around the world. But some things about them remain a ...
“To this day we haven’t seen successful copulation, but it is proof (whale sharks) are in our waters trying out these behaviors.” Cameron Perry, a research scientist at the Georgia Aquarium ...