Mr. Richards is a staff editor for Times Opinion. He reported from Nantucket and Cape Cod Bay, Mass. The North Atlantic right whale is highly endangered, its survival as a species in doubt.

The Icelandic Coast Guard rescued an entangled whale during a six-hour operation ... Brendan Rascius is a McClatchy national real-time reporter covering politics and international news.

Humpback whale calves communicate with their mothers ... Brendan Rascius is a McClatchy national real-time reporter covering politics and international news. He has a master’s in journalism ...

A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year for a species threatened with extinction. The whales are North Atlantic ...

The whales were once numerous off the East Coast but were devastated during the commercial whaling era. They have been a protected species for decades. The Seattle Times does not append comment ...

Artificial intelligence came of age in 2024, helping to decode the mysteries of ancient scrolls, whale vocalizations, the ...

"We didn't know how to age baleen whales until 1955, which was the very end of industrial whaling," Breed said. "By the time we figured it out, there weren't many old whales left to study.

The marine animals tend to spend most of their time off the coast of Canada and the Northeast in the western Atlantic before migrating southward for the calving season. The right whales are ...

A third endangered whale has been spotted entangled in fishing gear off the East Coast, marking an alarming end to the year for a species threatened with extinction. The whales are North Atlantic ...

Humpback whales migrate north from around Antarctica to the warm waters of French Polynesia between the months of July and November. During that time, they give birth, nurture their young ...