According to NOAA, climate change and ocean noise pose additional threats to the species. They were named for being the ...

During calving season, the whales migrate south to give birth in the warmer waters off the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida, ...

After samples were collected, the whale was buried since it was "unable to be towed back to" the beach due to shallow water.

What better way to track whales than listening in on them? Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed ...

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com An aerial survey team from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute made an extremely rare ...

False killer whales - which are in fact a dolphin - are typically deep-sea dwellers, and are one of the rarest marine mammals ...

Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

“Very little is known about how right whales transition from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf and vice versa,” biologists with the FWC said in a Feb. 3 Facebook post. “The most recent ...

“Sadly, North Atlantic right whales and North Pacific right whales are two species that are still critically endangered, and their influence on ocean ecosystems is greatly reduced. So there are ...