No dorsal fin. V-shaped blow. Almost extinct. Right Whale Day brings a rare species into focus — before it’s too late.

At least 11 North Atlantic right whales were born this calving season — fewer than researchers studying the critically endangered species had hoped, the New England Aquarium reported. There are only ...

A North Atlantic right whale (NARW) entangled in fishing gear, which has not been seen by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) biologists since December 2024, has been spotted off ...

A breathtaking discovery has just surfaced off the coast of Ireland, where the elusive North Atlantic right whale—a species ...

North Atlantic right whales are typically spotted off Cape Cod this time of year. Koala and Curlew, both females, were seen ...

Picture yourself out at sea, gazing at the boundless expanse of ocean when suddenly, an enormous creature emerges from the ...

The New England Aquarium identified the pair as 16-year-old “Koala” and 14-year-old “Curlew,” both females. And this, too, is ...

“In an extremely unusual sighting, divers have captured footage of two North Atlantic right whales in The Bahamas, the first time the species has ever been seen in this country,” the New England ...

The Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown is working to ...

Humpback comeback: whales are reclaiming their territory in the Salish Sea, bringing new life to waters once left empty by ...

Here, gray whales come right up to boats and seem to want to interact with the ... Their giant gray bodies have a patchy ...

Neal is a graduate of Boston University. Researchers are listening for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new buoys in the water.