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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 ...
Until recently, all right whales of the genus Eubalaena were considered a single species—E. glacialis. In 2000, genetic studies of right whales from the different ocean basins led scientists to conclude that the populations in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Southern Hemisphere constitute three distinct species. [5]
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.
Researchers observed the North Atlantic right whale with an aerial camera just north of Marshfield on Monday, April 1, the Center for Coastal Studies said in a news release and on social media.
A North Atlantic right whale recently stirred up excitement when it showed up in Donegal Bay off the northwestern coast of Ireland. It's been more than 100 years since the last positive ...
Critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have seen a slight population increase since last year. The whales swim off Cape Cod in late winter.
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.
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 ...