The right whale population increased to 384, up from 376 the year prior, according to estimates released by The North ...

Centuries after these whales were nearly hunted to extinction, the species is getting some good news, but threats still ...

Almost the entire population of southern resident killer whales gathered in central Puget Sound on Sunday, but the newest ...

The North Atlantic right whale population continues to grow slightly, but advocates say stronger protections are needed for ...

Unlike other baleens like the fin whale, humpback, and blue whale, the North Atlantic right whale has been slow to recover.

The North Atlantic right whale ( Eubalaena glacialis) is one of the most endangered large whales. Their very name references ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A cruise ship sailed into a New York City port with a 44-foot (13-meter) dead whale across its bow, marine authorities said. The whale, identified as an endangered sei whale, was ...

For the fourth year in a row, estimated annual births outnumbered deaths for the critically endangered species.

Humpback whales are increasingly showing up in New York's waters, a sign of a population rebounding after centuries of being hunted. But the same waters that now attract them are also some of the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With as few as about a dozen of the mammals left, federal regulators say a unique species of baleen whales in the Gulf of Mexico about 70 miles off the Florida Panhandle may be ...

PORT ST. JOE, Fla. -- A 35-foot endangered Sei whale became stranded on a Gulf of Mexico sandbar and died despite efforts by residents to rescue the beached mammal. The 15-ton whale appeared along the ...