Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself.

A pair of rare and critically endangered whales has journeyed past their usual course, appearing in the Gulf Coast where they’re at greater risk — and Texas experts are keeping an eye out for them.

In a now viral Facebook post, video captured an extremely rare sighting of an endangered whale species along Alabama’s Gulf ...

A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.

There may be less than 400 North Atlantic right whales left in the world. Save Long Beach Island members hope this fact helps ...

The closure “affects only a handful of lobstermen for three months but protects right whales from the deadly fishing gear entanglements driving this species towards extinction,” Davenport said.

Court Restores Protections for Endangered Whale Species to Prevent Entanglement in Fishing Gear PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Commercial fishermen who hoped for a loosening of fishing regulations durin ...

FILE - A pair of North Atlantic right whales interact at the surface of Cape Cod Bay, in Massachusetts, on March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File, NOAA permit # 21371, File) There's ...