8/13/2017
North Pacific right whales were once plentiful, with an estimated 20,000 in the early 1800s, but whales caused their numbers to dwindle to just a few ...
Scientists aboard a research vessel were able to track down the incredibly rare North Pacific right whale recently, a species with just a few hundred ...
8/12/2017
It's rare for scientists studying critically endangered North Pacific right whales to actually see one. But this weekend, researchers on board a vessel in ...
A group of researchers spent more than four hours tracking the faint calls of a right whale, of which there are only a few hundred in existence.
8/11/2017
Researchers in the Bering Sea came upon the faint call of the right whale, and followed it for four hours until they tracked a couple of them down.
The team set sail from Dutch Harbor in July to conduct the International Whaling Commission's Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research survey.
The population of the whale has been measured at about 30 to 50 whales, according to scientists. "This makes the North Pacific right whale the rarest ...
8/10/2017
In this Aug. 6, 2017, photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, a North Pacific right whale swims in the Bering Sea west of Bristol Bay. (Photo: AP).
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Federal researchers studying critically endangered North Pacific right whales sometimes go years without finding their ...
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists photographed two animals in the eastern stock of North Pacific right whales and obtained ...