Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers figured out that the Bryde’s Whales in the Gulf of Mexico were not, in fact, Bryde’s Whales. Photo: NWF Although we ...

Fewer than 100 Rice’s whales remain on Earth. Researchers say sonic blasts from oil exploration are a top threat to the ...

Scientists have proven a mammal that was believed to be a whale subspecies is actually a new species entirely, and the new species is critically endangered. Researchers took a closer look at the ...

One of the world’s rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the giant mammal to ...

NOAA Fisheries will examine the status of the Rice’s whale, which was listed as an endangered species in 2021. NOAA Fisheries launched an assessment Monday of an endangered whale that has been at the ...

In recent weeks, the federal government has stripped protections for one of the world’s rarest whales at a rapid pace, ...

WASHINGTON, June 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oceana has joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its decision to unilaterally remove threatened and endangered species protections in the ...

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will delay by two years a final rule designating protections for the endangered Rice's whale in the oil and gas drilling region of the Gulf of ...

The Trump administration published a long-awaited environmental assessment on Tuesday that found that vessel strikes related to oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico are likely to jeopardize the ...