Like humans, whales’ chromosomes most commonly express either XX or XY for female or male sex, respectively. One of the whale ...

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 ...

A new baby orca born to J Pod is a ray of hope for the endangered southern resident killer whales. J63 was spotted by Mark ...

In the subantarctic Auckland Islands, Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner Richard Robinson captures a bright new future for the whales almost hunted to extinction. Richard Robinson was being ...

The BAS South Georgia Wild Water Whales Project used acoustic listening devices to record and describe southern right whales’ call repertoire, directly linking their calls to visual sightings of ...

Right whales feed on zooplankton and other tiny organisms using baleens up to 8 feet long. Southern and the two species of northern right whales live in temperate Atlantic or Pacific waters ...

Southern right whale populations were decimated after nearly 300 years of hunting in the South Atlantic. An international team of researchers, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), travels to the ...

10. Portland: Cape Bridgewater, Portland Harbour and Portland Whale Viewing Platform are the top spots in Portland for ...

Three right whale mother-calf pairs have been spotted in Bay, where researchers are monitoring them. Why they are important.