The North Pacific right whale has been spotted only a handful of times in 60 years. A marine biologist from Seattle wants to change that. Skip to content. NEW MEMBER OFFER!

From 20 years' worth of data, researchers found that a 20% drop in the North Pacific humpback whale population coincided with a marine heat wave dubbed "the blob" — an event that was responsible ...

North Pacific right whale. Extensive whaling in the 1800s drew down right whale populations significantly. Which is why not too much has been known about them.

She said she helped identify the whales in the video as North Pacific right whales. Beder, in Unalaska, was shocked. “I don't know anything about right whales, to be honest,” she said.

One of world’s rarest whales sighted off Point Reyes coast About 30 North Pacific Right Whales still survive in U.S. waters. On Friday, Bay Area scientists saw one of them.

An eastern North Pacific right whale, the world’s most endangered great whale, spotted in the southeastern Bering Sea in 2004. (Photo by John Durban/NOAA Fisheries) Federal researchers in the ...

The humpback whale population in the North Pacific was once reduced to just a few thousand individuals because of commercial whaling. It finally peaked at more than 33,000 whales in 2012 – and ...

Over the last 20-30 years, gray whales that spend their summers feeding in shallow waters off the coast of the Pacific Northwest have been getting about 13% shorter, according to the study.

As long as yellow school bus and weighing as much as 20 cars, the eastern North Pacific gray whale is a gentle giant often seen breaching just off the California coast. As of 2016 the population ...

There are some fantastic ways to experience the mystical marine mammals in the Pacific Northwest that place you more in rhythm with these amazing creatures than your standard whale-watching tour ...