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Compared to this year's 11 calves, in 2022 there were 15 calves born and in 2021 there were 18. Right whales are not growing as big, which Hamilton said scientists are still trying to understand.
A review of the status of a vanishing species of whale found that the animal's population is in worse shape than previously thought, federal ocean regulators said Monday. The North Atlantic right ...
How many right whales are left? Scientists estimate only about 356 right whales, plus or minus seven, are alive today. In recent years, much of the population has spent time in Cape Cod Bay before ...
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 report issued by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium shows the critically endangered species is still in decline. But it can recover. Report: North Atlantic right whales continuing to decline
A 2012 analysis of the scarification of right whales over the years 1980 to 2009 showed that 82.9% of all North Atlantic right whales experienced at least one fishing gear entanglement, 59.0% have had more than one such experience, and an average of 15.5% of the population are entangled in fishing gear annually.
A whale nicknamed 'Black Heart' was the first sighted in the Southern U.S. for the 2024-25 calving season. The female, around 19 years old, was spotted off the North Carolina coast in November.
The population of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) has declined since 1970 due to commercial whaling and heavy vessel traffic in the North Atlantic Ocean. Although commercial whaling has been contributing to the protection of the species since 1935, the population has failed to make a full recovery.