Like humans, whales’ chromosomes most commonly express either XX or XY for female or male sex, respectively. One of the whale ...

"Our research focused on how well MPAs in NZ waters encompass important southern right whale habitat and how well they protect the whales from vessel traffic," says Dr. Leena Riekkola. "As this ...

Right whales feed on zooplankton and other tiny organisms using baleens up to 8 feet long. Southern and the two species of northern right whales live in temperate Atlantic or Pacific waters ...

In the subantarctic Auckland Islands, Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner Richard Robinson captures a bright new future for the whales almost hunted to extinction. Richard Robinson was being ...

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Southern right whale populations were decimated after nearly 300 years of hunting in the South Atlantic. An international team of researchers, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), travels to the ...

the slow moving southern right whales were an easy target in the shallows. Albany itself prospered from the trade with these early whalers and with visiting ships. After the invention of the ...

Three right whale mother-calf pairs have been spotted in Bay, where researchers are monitoring them. Why they are important.

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The BAS South Georgia Wild Water Whales Project used acoustic listening devices to record and describe southern right whales’ call repertoire, directly linking their calls to visual sightings of ...