Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

After conservationists pushed for more, NOAA Fisheries withdrew a proposal that would have expanded boat speed limits and ...

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

Groundbreaking research in the late 1990s showed that Arctic-dwelling bowhead whales could live more than 150 or even 200 ...

After two years of debate and 90,000 public comments, NOAA withdrew a contentious boat speed rule aimed at Atlantic right whale conservation.

The rule would have limited boats as small as 35 feet to 10 knots when North Atlantic right whales were migrating through NC's near-shore waters.

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 ...

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. Dozens of North Atlantic right whales — more than 15% of the estimated global population — are gathered off Jeffreys Ledge, east of Portsmouth ...

The federal government is withdrawing proposed rules that would have required more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to ...

Wondering what those huge, dark blobs in the ocean are this winter? If you guessed a whale, you're right! North Atlantic right whales have been making their annual trek to Florida since late ...

A stricter speed limit isn’t coming to the waters of the North Atlantic right whale calving grounds off the Georgia coast after all. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...