NANTUCKET, Mass. – An entangled 19-year-old right whale appears to be in poor health because of a fishing buoy lodged in one corner of her mouth. Known as “Dragon,” the female whale was ...

PROVINCETOWN - Endangered North Atlantic right whales have been spotted off ... able to remove some of the gear from the 5-year-old whale's mouth on Thursday, but some of the gear remains.

Every right whale in the North Atlantic Right Whale Catalog has a number assigned to it, and many also have names that help scientists more easily recognize the whales when they see them during ...

A North Atlantic right whale found dead off the coast of Virginia ... being spotted with severe propeller wounds to its head, mouth, and lip. “The delay of these protection measures has put ...

gray and right whales transport more than 3,700 tons of nitrogen each year while migrating along what’s been dubbed the “great whale conveyor belt.” “Humpback whales and gray whales make ...

As dozens of North Atlantic right whales take to Cape Cod Bay, experts are working to save a young whale that has been dangerously entangled in fishing gear for months. After traveling south for ...

We watched him skim-feeding: opening his mouth wide and ingesting zooplankton through his baleen as he grazed the surface. The right whale appears almost upside-down, the smaller upper jaw visible ...

the Coast Guard was unable to confirm whether the whale was a humpback whale or an endangered North Atlantic right whale. Humpback whale sightings are typically more common, although more than 80 ...

According to Florida Fish and Wildlife, most right whale sightings happen along Florida's east coast but they're occasionally seen in the Gulf. It is illegal to feed or touch a right whale and ...

Endangered Atlantic right ... near whale sightings. Researchers found that vessels traveling at more than 20 knots, or about 23 mph, were “often encountered” in the mouth of the Chesapeake ...