BOSTON - About 75 North Atlantic right whales, representing about 20% of the critically endangered species' population ...

If any of the whales become entangled in Maine gear, it could worsen regulations lobstermen say are already too strict.

NASSAU COUNTY, FLORIDA, Fla. — The right whale "Grand Teton" was seen with a newborn calf off Amelia Island on Thursday.

Southern right whales can live to be more than 130 years old — which is decades longer than previously thought, according to ...

Stay 500 yards away, about the length of five football fields. This regulation applies to vessels, aircraft, drones and watercraft such as surfboards, kayaks and jet skis. Any vessel within 500 yards ...

NOAA proposed a speed change to certain water vessels in order to aid the critically endangered right whale population.

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

A proposal to lower speed limits on waterways — boat strikes kill a large number of the whales — was dropped in face of next administration.

A group of about 75 endangered North Atlantic right whales was spotted off the western edge of Jeffreys Ledge. That's about ...

The federal government is withdrawing a proposal that would require more ships to slow down in East Coast waters to try to ...

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 ...