Enormous, gentle, and playful, right whales have had the misfortune of being defined, even named, according to their value as hunted rather than living creatures. Whalers named the species thinking ...

A whale of a tale, indeed. On May 24, scientists were shocked and excited to spot a North Pacific right whale — one of the rarest whale species in the world — off the coast of Marin County ...

Female right whales are known to migrate to Atlantic coastal waters off the Southeast U.S. coast to give birth to calves, but ...

Instead, it was a critically endangered North Pacific right whale: one of the rarest whales in the world with an estimated 30 individuals left in the subpopulation.

The whales are now headed north. In just the last two weeks, three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay, one of which ...

The whale calf was first observed in January with serious injuries to its mouth and head Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

There are approximately 340 North Atlantic right whales left on the planet, and less than 70 of those animals are reproductively active females Researchers captured rare footage of a critically ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

The Southern right whale can be found throughout the southern hemisphere, and several thousand are thought to remain. But the North Pacific right whale is even rarer than its North Atlantic relative.

For the first time in 2025, a North Atlantic right whale mother and calf have been sighted in Cape Cod Bay. Right whale mother nicknamed "Nauset" #2413 was seen with her calf on March 11 during an ...

Whales are the bees of the ocean. That’s a conclusion of new research showing that whales undertake the longest journeys to transport nutrients of any mammal or large animal on Earth, much like ...