Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself.

After BOEM rescinded its protection efforts aimed at slowing ship traffic, there is little to save the whale from extinction.

There may be fewer than 100 Rice's whales left in the Gulf of Mexico, but the Department of the Interior doesn't believe that ...

The Rice’s whale is among the most endangered marine mammals on the planet — there may be as few as 51 left in the wild.

Protections on ship speeds in the Gulf were removed by the Trump administration in areas where the endangered Rice's whale is ...

One of the world’s most endangered whales lost a layer of its protections last week after President Donald Trump’s ...

Rice's whales living off the Gulf Coast of Texas will lose some protections after the U.S. Department of the Interior this week rescinded its notice to oil and gas companies to take extra ...

As part of Donald Trump's "Unleashing American Energy" executive order, rules that sought to protect the species have been rescinded.

The decision about the Rice's whale from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was applauded by the oil and gas industry ...

BALTIMORE— Under an agreement approved today in U.S. District Court in Maryland, federal agencies will seek better ways to protect endangered Rice’s whales and other imperiled marine species from ...

New paper describes species of baleen whale in the Gulf of Mexico - Rice's whale. A species of baleen whale that is native to the Gulf of Mexico, called Rice's whale, is already threatened by ...

Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of Mexico—and one of the most endangered whales in the world.