With fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales remaining, the federal government on Tuesday declared they must stay on the endangered species list. The population of the species, one of three in t… ...

The North Atlantic right whale will remain protected under the Endangered Species Act, and the species requires a series of protective steps to stave off extinction, federal authorities said Tuesday.

Local News Feds: Vanishing right whale must remain on endangered list The whales number only about 340 and they have declined in population in recent years.

The debate over whether to delist humpback whales in Massachusetts comes years after most humpback whale populations were removed from the federal endangered species list in 2016, and more than a ...

There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 ...

The whales give birth off the southeastern U.S. in the winter and spring and migrate north to New England and Canada to feed.

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, there are over 1,300 species listed as endangered or threatened to become extinct in the U.S. under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.

According to the IUCN, the whales are "critically endangered", and the whales are on the Endangered Species List. There are ...

Learn more about a group of orcas in the Pacific Northwest that have been observed making and using tools to groom each other ...

A third endangered North Atlantic right whale was found tangled in fishing gear off the East Coast last Monday just days after two others had been recovered in critical condition near Nantucket, Mass.

The list sometimes overlaps with the species listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, such as in the case of the North Atlantic right whale. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) (Michael Dwyer ...