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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 ...
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.
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 ...
A female North Atlantic right whale named Bocce appears belly up in a surface active group on Feb. 12 in southern New England waters. Compared to this year's 11 calves, in 2022 there were 15 ...
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 ...
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.
However, based on data from other whale species, only 5-17% of strikes are detected, so the total number may be higher. [7] North Atlantic right whales are more vulnerable to ship strikes than other whales because right whales spend more time in coastal areas at the surface of the ocean and do not exhibit vessel-avoidance behavior. [8]
North Atlantic right whale researchers are happy with the latest annual count of the critically endangered whales, which spend late winter and early spring off Cape Cod. But deaths recorded in ...