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A dredge from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can be seen removing a sandbar off of Virginia Beach, VA.

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Dredging Sand

December 2013

Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.

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Right Whale Tail

January 2010

Horizontal bands of color represent different species of lichen that have adapted to the conditions at different heights above sea level.

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Lichen Zones

September 2015

Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica) is a slow-growing and long-lived seagrass native to the Mediterranean.

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Fish Feeding in Seagrass

February 2013

Hundreds to thousands of tiny crustaceans live on each right whale, eating algae that settles on their skin.

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Whale Lice

June 2017

Close-up of a 17th century painting shows how whales were brought ashore for processing and their blubber rendered into marketable oil.

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Basque Whalers

January 2010

In December 2003, researchers spot Phoenix off the coast of Florida with her second calf.

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Phoenix and Second Calf

January 2010

In 1996, at age nine, Phoenix has her first calf (North Atlantic right whale #2605) off the southeast coast of Florida.

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Phoenix and First Calf

January 2010

January 14, 1987: Phoenix is first spotted as she swims with her mother, Stumpy, off the coast of Georgia.

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Phoenix’s First Sighting

January 2010

A team works to free a one-year-old right whale from fishing ropes wrapped and knotted around its body and flippers.

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Whale Rescue

January 2010

An early scale model of North Atlantic right whale Phoenix indicates the location of scars on her tail from entanglements with fishing gear.

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Phoenix: Tail Scarring

January 2010

Phoenix’s mother, Stumpy (number 1004), was killed in a collision with a ship near Virginia in February 2004. She was pregnant with her sixth known calf.

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When Ships Strike

January 2010