a scientist waits patiently for two frolicking humpback whales to poke their tails out of the icy waters so she can take a photographic “fingerprint” of the unique colours and patterns that ...

Each humpback whale has unique patterns, scars, and pigmentation on the underside of its tail fluke, which serve as a kind of fingerprint for individual identification. Artificial intelligence ...

"Possible causes include global climate change, extreme environmental events, and evolutionary mechanisms of the species.” Scientists sound alarm after documenting unprecedented behavior in humpback ...

KITTY HAWK, N.C. — Experts who conducted a necropsy on a juvenile humpback whale that washed ... In addition, photographs of the whale’s fluke pattern – which is unique to that whale ...