However, unlike other baleen whales, right whales are skimmers, feeding by continuously filtering food through their baleen while moving, mouth open, through patches of plankton. THREATS: With ...

A critically injured right whale calf could die from injuries it suffered in a vessel collision that may prevent it from nursing.

Researchers have found three critically endangered right whales entangled off ... “It's entangled in such a way that the whale can't open its mouth to feed. So it's lifetime is finite now ...

From SamWalkerOBXNews.com Federal regulators on Wednesday withdrew proposed changes to vessel speed limit rules intended to ...

The New England Aquarium called the decision a “serious setback for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Humpback whale populations have been increasing throughout many of their ranges since a final moratorium on commercial whaling was established in 1985 by the International Whaling Commission, NOAA ...