Each whale has a unique pattern of callosities on its head and around its eyes, which are white or cream due to infestation with whale lice. The shallow waters off the Valdés Peninsula in Argentina ...

Armed with binoculars and notebooks, a group of researchers scramble along the remote cliff edges counting and photographing ...

New Zealand's southern right whales were almost hunted to extinction a century ago. Their recovery now depends on the health of the oceans - but where exactly do they feed? The answer has ...

New Zealand's southern right whales were almost hunted to extinction a century ago. Their recovery now depends on the health of the oceans - but where exactly do they feed? The answer has ...

photo by NOAA Individual right whales can be identified based on a whale’s pattern of callosities—raised patches of skin on the head, jaw, and eyebrows that are as unique as fingerprints. Based on ...

"Our research focused on how well MPAs in NZ waters encompass important southern right whale habitat and how well they ...

Their heads have knobby white patches of rough skin, called callosities, which appear white because of whale lice (cyamids) covering their otherwise black skin. Each right whale has a unique ...