In January, a juvenile right whale was found dead off Martha’s Vineyard. NOAA officials said the whale’s body was found with ropes tangled near its tail. Weeks later, a second right whale ...

In January, a young female right whale washed up dead on a Martha's Vineyard beach. Investigators determined the rope found "deeply embedded" in the whale's tail came from fishing gear in Maine.

It's the third dead whale to wash up on Delaware shores this year. A juvenile humpback beached itself and died just north of ...

(This whale is the 31st found dead.)," NOAA shared in their release about the death. There are just around 400 North Atlantic right whales left in the world, and only about 95 of those remaining ...

Efforts to tow a dead humpback whale ... spokesperson Martha Meacham said. It was too decomposed for a necropsy and was disposed of in a landfill. Right whale sighting off Ocean City leads to ...