Meanwhile, whales are competing with fishing boats for the animals’ sole food supply. Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to ...

Cruise ship drags dead whale into New York, prompting investigation. The collision with the 44-foot-long, endangered sei whale could have been avoided, experts said.

These algal blooms may continue to be a significant threat to sei whales as climate change causes ocean waters to warm and algal blooms develop better in warmer waters. 4. of 14.

New research examining 11,700 years of bowhead whale persistence throughout the Arctic projects that sea ice loss due to climate change will cause their habitat to severely contract by up to 75%.

An endangered sei whale died in what may have been a ship strike at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook on Saturday. ... While whaling is now largely prohibited, human activity still poses a huge ...

Most shipping paths cross whale habitats, a recent analysis concludes, making ship collisions a “major threat” to the world’s whales. The study, published in Science last month, conducted a ...

A 44-foot sei whale was found dead on an MSC cruise ship's bow as it arrived at a ... "Vessel strikes and entanglement pose the biggest threat to sei whales today," the website stated. Close. Read ...

An endangered 44-foot Sei whale was likely struck and killed by the massive MSC Meraviglia cruise and dragged into the Port of Brooklyn over the weekend.

A cruise ship arrived in New York Harbor with a dead sei whale pinned to its bow, a revelation that has spawned a federal investigation and has led biologists to examine the whale’s carcass to ...

A group of researchers that studies the endangered right whale said Tuesday that the population increased to an estimated 372 in 2023. They call the new trend “heartening news” in a statement ...

To understand humpback vision, Mr. Bolin and his team dissected the eye of a juvenile humpback whale that died on a North Carolina beach in 2011.

The report in Science magazine found that whales are at risk “across the world’s oceans,” with 91.5 percent of all blue, fin, humpback, and sperm whale ranges containing shipping activity.