PORTLAND, Maine — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists who ...
CHARLESTON — While the North Atlantic right whale continues to hover on the edge of extinction, 2024 marked another year of slow population recovery for the species. The whales, which migrate to South ...
Australia's southern right whale population growth has stalled, raising questions about the recovery of a species that was nearly driven to extinction by historical whaling, according to a new study.
An endangered species of whale has had a promising number of new babies. (SOUNDBITE OF WHALE CALL) FADEL: The New England Aquarium has been counting, and 18 North Atlantic right whale calves were born ...
Once hunted almost to extinction, the group of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back — and then some. In a preliminary report to the federal Department of ...