A pair of adult female right whales, Koala and Curlew, have mystified researchers this winter as they cruised south along the Florida coast, then made a surprise appearance this week off Alabama ...

Simons Sound. The team works in tandem with researchers with the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in a Cessna 337 flying at 1,000 feet overhead looking for whales. Black and sleek with no dorsal fin to ...

Capt. Bobby Kelly, Owner of Miss Brianna’s Fishing Charter, captured the moments he saw two right whales while boating in Perdido Pass on Sunday. During a Facebook live on Monday, Kelly talked ...

The appeals court decision “represents a major victory for right whale conservation,” said Jane Davenport, a senior attorney with Defenders of Wildlife, one of the groups that sued.

From December through March every year, the waters off Georgia’s coast provide calving grounds for the estimated 70 remaining reproductively active female North American right whales, one of the world ...

The whales are North Atlantic right whales, a species that has garnered attention in recent years for its struggle to rebound to healthy population numbers. There are only around 370 of these ...

1 to April 30 annually. Lethal entanglement in lobster fishing gear is one of the biggest threats to the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers less than 380 and is in decline. The other major ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A pair of North Atlantic right whales interact at the surface of Cape Cod Bay, in Massachusetts, on March 27 ...