Right whales were hunted for oil, meat, and apparel materials — for corset stays, umbrella ribs, and buggy whips — until the early 20th century. Once abundant, the North Pacific right whale is now the ...

A whale of a tale, indeed. On May 24, scientists were shocked and excited to spot a North Pacific right whale — one of the rarest whale species in the world — off the coast of Marin County ...

The Earth’s remaining population of North Pacific right whales is tiny. “There are likely fewer than 500 North Pacific right ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— NOAA Fisheries announced today that it intends to expand critical habitat protections in Alaska for the North Pacific right whale. If finalized, the action will help protect the ...

This mass migration toward the relatively narrow Bering Strait could lead to more ship collisions and gear entanglements for the extremely rare and critically endangered eastern population of North ...

The Southern right whale can be found throughout the southern hemisphere, and several thousand are thought to remain. But the North Pacific right whale is even rarer than its North Atlantic relative.

The Name That Whale contest organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is asking the public to come up with a name for the Eastern North Pacific right whale spotted last ...

The right whale's callosities appear white due to large colonies of cyamids (whale lice). It is almost indistinguishable from the closely related North Atlantic and the North Pacific Right Whales ...

Consider the case of the North Pacific Right Whale, which not very long ago was recognized as a distinct species based on genetic evidence and the Phylogenetic Species Concept (Rosenbaum et al., ...

Some species of whales like right whales were depleted -- extirpated ... catch limits for minke whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific -- although with a lot of pressure holding the ...

They just have to have their feeding grounds right where we want to put another ... near crucial feeding habitat of the Western North Pacific gray whale population in the Russian Far East.

Sightings of North Pacific right whales are exceedingly rare, but the animals are likely to have been moving north along with the zooplankton, according to Wright's modeling analysis of ...