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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.
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 ...
The first North Atlantic right whale of the 2024-2025 calving season was spotted recently, the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute has reported. A female whale nicknamed "Black Heart ...
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 ...
More than 100 right whales affected since 2017. According to NOAA, the calf is the 35th “serious injury” case in the ongoing unusual mortality event affecting North Atlantic right whales ...
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.
Even though it's been a tough year, the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium is sharing some positive news for the critically endangered species. The organization's 2023 right whale population ...