A previously undetected North Atlantic right whale calf and its mother were sighted in Cape Cod Bay on April 17.

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 ...

NOAA said she's never been seen in the traditional Southeast calving grounds, which stretches from southern North Carolina ...

Northern right whale dolphins are often spotted farther away from shore and in deeper waters, but Evan Brodsky, a captain and videographer with private boat tour company Monterey Bay Whale Watch ...

The North Atlantic right whale is one of the world’s most endangered whales. Once common along the eastern U.S. seaboard, the whale was hunted to near-extinction by the 1750s. While no longer pursued ...

Cape Cod Bay is teeming with new activity as North Atlantic right whale calves make their grand entrance into local waters, joining their mothers on a journey that began hundreds of miles away off ...

A California boat captain has captured rare video of a super pod of more than 2,000 dolphins breaching off the coast of Monterey, including the more elusive northern right whale dolphin. Northern ...

Enormous, gentle, and playful, right whales have had the misfortune of being defined, even named, according to their value as hunted rather than living creatures. Whalers named the species thinking ...