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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
The family Balaenidae, the right whales, contains two genera and four species. All right whales have no ventral grooves; a distinctive head shape with a strongly arched, narrow rostrum, bowed lower jaw; lower lips that enfold the sides and front of the rostrum; and long, narrow, elastic baleen plates (up to nine times longer than wide) with fine baleen fringes.
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 ...