The center’s Marine Animal Entanglement Response team found the entangled young right whale “with fishing rope wrapped around ...

A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted in Cape Cod Bay over the weekend with fishing gear wrapped ...

The news comes one year after documentation that the North Atlantic right whale population increased 2.1% between 2023 and ...

A routine January flight over Cape Cod Bay turned up numbers – and whales – local researchers rarely see. One day, one survey ...

NOAA has recorded 15 North Atlantic right whale births so far over the 2025-2026 birthing season ...

Anyone who spots a whale is encouraged to report the sighting by calling 877-942-5343, hailing the U.S. Coast Guard on marine ...

North Atlantic right whales are large, docile creatures that were hunted to the brink of extinction. More recently, ship ...

After right whales were redetected east of Ocean City, Maryland, on Jan. 14, the right whale Slow Zone has been extended ...

The population of the North Atlantic right whale is slowly climbing. What's behind the rise in numbers and what more can be ...

Right whale season is off to a busy start. Thirty-three North Atlantic right whales were observed in Cape Cod Bay during an ...

With the presence of right whales detected anew Jan. 3, 2026, east of Ocean City, a new right whale Slow Zone is now in ...

One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies this year than in some recent seasons, but experts say many more young are needed to help stave off the possibility of extinction.