Right whales are the rarest of all large whales. There are several species, but all are identified by enormous heads, which can measure up to one-third of their total body length. These whales ...

By Shanna Hanbury Two North Atlantic right whales, among the most at-risk marine mammals, were spotted swimming in the ...

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

Airborne researchers are now able to talk to ships heading toward endangered right whales, avoiding potentially fatal ship ...

As dozens of North Atlantic right whales take to Cape Cod Bay, experts are working to save a young whale that has been dangerously entangled in fishing gear for months. After traveling south for ...

North Atlantic Right Whale Day once again brings scientists, conservationists and the public together on April 24 — both in Provincetown and Boston — to learn about and celebrate a species ...