Entanglement in fishing gear and vessel strikes are the leading causes of North Atlantic right whale mortality. The Southern right whale has a median lifespan of 73.4 years, and 10% live beyond ...

Right whales feed on zooplankton and other tiny organisms using baleens up to 8 feet long. Southern and the two ... identified them as the “right” whale to kill on a hunt.

It found the southern right whale, which populates oceans around Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Antarctica, can live much longer than initially thought, with an estimated median age of ...

The death toll continues to rise amongst whales along Southern New England coastlines. On Wednesday, a juvenile humpback whale was stranded along Richmond Pond Beach in Westport. "This is the 13th ...

In December 2018 two southern right whale dolphins were stranded at Sea Lion Island, with a southern right whale carcass beaching in the same location in March this year. Also in March ...

In Southern New England, organizations including the Whale and Dolphin Conservation and Mystic ... related to offshore wind projects right off our shores. They never say that," Gee began.

NMFS has to act quickly to slow down vessels on the southern calving grounds to protect the right whale’s future.” Following the filing of the case ... activists dedicated to the protection of ...