The whale is the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers only about 370. The whales give birth off the southeastern U.S. in the winter and spring and migrate north to New England and Canada to feed.

A third endangered North Atlantic right whale was found tangled in fishing gear off the East Coast last Monday just days after two others had been recovered in critical condition near Nantucket, Mass.

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 ...

Protecting whales from ship strikes 07:08. The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to save a vanishing species of ...

As NOAA notes, more than 125 North Atlantic right whales have been found “dead, seriously injured, or sublethally injured” from 2017 to 2024. Interestingly, the drastic spike in whale deaths along the ...

The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with ships in its waters. The whale is the North Atlantic right whale, which ...

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 ...

Whale conservationists lamented the move as a major loss, saying the proposal was a “much needed” effort to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from extinction.