Gray whales travel from the Arctic to Mexico each year. And they're not finding enough to eat, scientists say.

Fishing gear and vessel strikes risk pushing critically endangered animals into extinction, and governments have spent ...

There are more than 500 recognized shark species living today. Sharks can be found in all of the world’s oceans, and even in some rivers. Their notorious and often undeserved reputations have caused ...

Swimming with whales is illegal in Mexico – except when it isn’t. After the discovery of loopholes within the law, tourist trips where people can take to the water with orcas have boomed in a small ...

The Rice's Whale. Scientists estimate that there are fewer than 100 Rice's whales in existence. The whale only lives in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo courtesy National Marine Fisheries Service/NOAA ...

This is the Rice’s whale, one of the Gulf of Mexico’s largest and most mysterious animals. Found nowhere else on Earth, it is the only baleen whale that lives in the Gulf year-round.

One of two Rice’s whales observed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the western Gulf of Mexico during an aerial survey on April 11, 2024.

A Rice’s whale swims in the Gulf of Mexico. Two of the baleen whales, which are endangered, were spotted off the coast of Corpus Christi last month, according to the National Oceanic and ...

Baleen whales, like the right whale ... One estimate from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that there are as many as 763 sperm whales who live in the Gulf of Mexico with ...

Rice’s whales are around 40 feet in length, have three prominent ridges on their blowhole and a curved dorsal fin. They are the only baleen whale that lives full time in the Gulf of Mexico and ...

Rice’s whales are a species of baleen whale found solely in the Gulf of Mexico, thought to be the region’s only year-round baleen resident. They were not discovered until 1965 and even then ...