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News Articles: whale

Senior Wildlife Biologist Jessica Thompson and Wildlife Technician Trip Kolkmeyer deploy a drone to search for an endangered North Atlantic right whale near St. Marys on Jan. 26, 2025. Drones are used to locate, identify, and document individual whales. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA

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  • Animals

A look at the search for endangered right whales off Coastal Georgia

A day on the water with researchers shows how they monitor the rare animals in their calving grounds.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Justin Taylor
Right whale Catalog #3260 ‘Skittle’ and calf sighted approximately 25 nautical miles off Kure Beach, NC on Feb. 16, 2024. Credit: Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, taken under NOAA permit #26919. Funded by US Army Corps of Engineers.

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Two new North Atlantic right whale calves sighted

So far, 19 of the rare whales have been born in the Southeast calving area, but at least two have been struck by vessels.

February 21, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Right whale and calf off little St. Simons Archipeligo (right whale catalog #3370) and her new calf swim off Little St. Simons on Dec. 8, 2022.

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Underwater robot deployed to aid endangered right whales

With spring well underway, the North Atlantic right whales that migrated to Georgia to give birth here over the winter have migrated back north to their feeding grounds off New England and Canada.

May 29, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Landers
Kiska, Marineland's last living orca, is seen at the amusement park in 2012.

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  • Science

Kiska, 'the loneliest whale in the world,' dies at Canada amusement park

Canada's last captive killer whale died on Thursday at Marineland, according to local media. The orca, who has been in captivity since she was about 3 years old, was 47.

March 12, 2023
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  • Giulia Heyward
GPB News NPR

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  • Climate

Dead whales on the east coast fuel misinformation about offshore wind development

Experts don't know what's behind the years-long trend of whale deaths. But there's no evidence connecting the deaths to offshore wind development, which is less noisy than fossil fuel exploration.

February 25, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky (WNYC-FM) and
  • Kaitlyn Radde
A pair of North Atlantic right whales surface.

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  • News

Right whales struggle off of Georgia's coast

This year's North Atlantic right whale calving season has ended with 15 calves spotted off the Georgia, Florida and Carolina coasts. It's not enough.

April 22, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
A massive sculpture of a whale's tail keeps a metro train aloft Monday after it shot through a stop block at De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, Netherlands. No injuries were reported.

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  • Strange News

Saved By The Whale: Dutch Train Runs Off Elevated Tracks, Is Caught By Statue's Tail

An 18-year-old sculpture caught a metro train after it crushed barriers at the end of the tracks early Monday.

November 02, 2020
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By:
  • Reese Oxner
Atlantic Right Whale and calf

Right Whales Return To Georgia

Five endangered right whales have been spotted off the Georgia coast. They began returning this month to give birth.

December 19, 2018
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By:
  • Cindy Hill

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