North Atlantic right whales should live well past 100 years, but threats to the endangered species, including from commercial ...

Dec. 23—A third endangered North Atlantic right whale has been reported entangled in fishing gear within one week, this time off the coast of North Carolina. Two of the whales are so seriously injured ...

One North Atlantic right whale was seen near North Carolina wrapped in fishing rope and buoys. Two others were spotted off Massachusetts. A third endangered North Atlantic right whale has been ...

To answer some of these questions, researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks analyzed 40 years’ worth of data collected by right whale identification programs. The study focused on two ...

A severely entangled North Atlantic right whale has been spotted off North Carolina with rope wrapped around the animal's head and mouth that may be preventing him from opening his mouth. The sighting ...

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.

North Atlantic Right Whale #3720 and her calf. This still image is from a drone video taken by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources under NOAA Permit 20556. (Georgia Department of Natural ...

FILE - This photo provided by NOAA Fisheries shows a North Atlantic right whale documented with two fishing lines exiting the left side of the mouth, Dec. 9, 2024. (NOAA Fisheries via AP ...

WORCESTER CO., MD - The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Fisheries announced the extension of a right whale Slow Zone after the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales were ...

16. Another aerial survey found two entangled right whales off Nantucket, Massachusetts, just days earlier, NOAA officials said. Like one of the whales spotted off Nantucket, the whale spotted off ...