The population of the North Atlantic right whale is slowly climbing. What's behind the rise in numbers and what more can be ...

For Massachusetts, the North Atlantic right whale represents more than a large animal moving through offshore waters. It ...

There are only 370 right whales left. If human activity doesn't change, the population may not be large enough to continue to ...

Among all of Earth's massive marine ecosystem, the one creature that elicits both awe and fear is the whale. While there are as many as 90 whale species across the world's oceans, biologists and ...

Australia's population of southern right whales has experienced substantial growth since the late 1970s when they began to recover from whaling, but a new study reveals troubling signs in their ...

The fossil record of baleen whales (Mysticeti) offers a window into one of the most dramatic evolutionary transitions among mammals. Early cetaceans evolved from terrestrial artiodactyl ancestors into ...

Fishermen just a few miles off the coast of South Carolina were treated to a rare sighting of a pair of critically endangered whales. The Island Packet reported that the crew was fishing near Hilton ...

Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...