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North Atlantic right whale skeleton found on the Thames in 2010 at Bay Wharf, Greenwich. The whale's scientific name is Eubalaena glacialis, which means "good, or true, whale of the ice". The cladogram is a tool for visualizing and comparing the evolutionary relationships between taxa. The point where a node branches off is analogous to an ...
Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have seen a slight population increase since last year. The whales swim off Cape Cod in late winter.
The center’s right whale ecology team was looking for North Atlantic right whales during a trip on Monday. In January, they had spotted the first of the rare cetaceans for the year in the bay.
The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the season has been spotted by a boater off South Carolina. Scientists are also tracking several adult whales who may give birth in the coming weeks.
A female North Atlantic right whale with her calf. During the mating season, which can occur at any time in the North Atlantic, right whales gather into "surface-active groups" made up of as many as 20 males consorting a single female. The female has her belly to the surface while the males stroke her with their flippers or keep her underwater.
Articles relating to the right whales (genus Eubalaena), consisting of three species of large baleen whales: the North Atlantic right whale (E. glacialis), the North Pacific right whale (E. japonica) and the Southern right whale (E. australis). They are classified in the family Balaenidae with the bowhead whale.
After North Atlantic right whales calve in the southeast U.S. during winter, they migrate north to feeding grounds in New England and Canada, officials said. Cape Cod Bay has been the destination ...
The right whales are considered to be the 149th and 150th documented cases in the ongoing North Atlantic right whale Unusual Mortality Event (UME), which includes dead, seriously injured or health ...