Pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) are among the ocean's most enigmatic inhabitants—rarely seen and largely unstudied. They live far offshore in small groups, diving in search of squid and fish.
This is the first time drone-based tagging has been employed for tracking the movements of pygmy blue whales.
Indonesian scientists have attached a satellite tag onto an endangered pygmy blue whales for the first time by drone. The tag ...
North Atlantic right whales sometimes gather at Jeffrey’s Ledge, a 62-mile-long underwater ridge about 25 miles off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Sarah Leiter DMR, NMFS Permit No. 27858. Get ...
An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted off Florida's Gulf coast, a rare sighting for the area. The whale, named "Millipede," is 21 years old and this is her third known ...
Another North Atlantic right whale that frequented Cape Cod Bay — and once triggered closure of the canal — has died after months in failing health from a severe fishing gear entanglement, a ...
After nearly two decades, the baby whale came back—as a mother, with a baby of its own. Julie Albert, director of the Right Whale Sighting Network at Blue World Research Institute, a nonprofit, first ...
Marine mammals trapped at a shuttered theme park in Canada may get a second chance at life through a pending deal that would see them relocated to aquatic facilities in the United States. Canadian ...
Marineland, a closed aquatic park in Ontario, had threatened to euthanize its whales after the government denied an application to send them to China. By Vjosa Isai Reporting from Toronto After ...
A Plymouth couple spotted a young North Atlantic right whale entangled in fishing gear in Cape Cod Bay. A marine rescue team partially freed the whale but it escaped with some rope still attached to ...
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (WPRI) — A critically endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted in Cape Cod Bay over the weekend with fishing gear wrapped around its tail. The Marine Animal Entanglement ...