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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 ...
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.
Curlew and Koala, two endangered North Atlantic right whales, wandered off course in January popping up along the Gulf coast near the Alabama and Florida border on Feb. 2. They are seen here off ...
Southern right whale, Eubalaena australis; 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 ...
Two North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the Gulf Coast of Alabama recently in a rare encounter less than a mile away from the Gulf Shore of Alabama. North Atlantic right whales are ...
Marshfield, about a 30-mile drive southeast from Boston, is located just across the bay from Provincetown, where the organization is based. After North Atlantic right whales calve in the southeast ...
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.
North Atlantic right whales typically gather off Cape Cod and off Canadian shores. They were seen in July and August south of Long Island, New York.