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A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year for a species threatened with extinction. The whales are North Atlantic ...
The shark-scavenged carcass of an endangered North Atlantic right whale last spotted alive near the Georgia coast has been discovered in ocean waters off Virginia, federal officials said Tuesday.
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 ...
Like other right whales, the North Atlantic right whale, also known as the northern right whale or black right whale, [2] is readily distinguished from other cetaceans by the absence of a dorsal fin on its broad back, short, paddle-like pectoral flippers and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye. Its coloration is dark grey to black ...
The North Atlantic right whale, which can weigh up to 150,000 pounds (68,039 kilograms) and lives off the East Coast, plummeted in population in the 2010s. The critically endangered whales, which are stressed by global warming and vulnerable to ship collisions and entanglement in fishing gear, fell to fewer than 360 individuals by the early 2020s.
A year-old North Atlantic right whale was found dead Wednesday off the coast of Georgia, according to federal officials. The young female, known as Pilgrim, was discovered floating about 20 miles ...
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.
In 1995, continuous observations of North Atlantic right whale, being considered as functionally extinct in eastern North Atlantic were made, [4] followed by another possible sighting off La Gomera between 1998 and 1999. [5] The Canary Islands were also formerly home to a population of the rarest pinniped in the world, the Mediterranean monk seal.