Two humpback whales were freed of life-threatening entanglements on Wednesday, Jan. 8 and Thursday, Jan. 9 off the coast of Maui in Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.

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Similar patterns of paternity have been documented in other humpback populations in the Pacific as well as in other baleen whale species, including North Atlantic right whales. In addition to ...

Most male humpback whales in a Pacific Ocean population do not have offspring — and bad singing might be to blame, new research reveals.

Footage of humpback whales captured by drones has revealed how the animals manoeuvre their whole bodies when they feed. As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale ...

As WBUR reported, the researchers believe that the three whale deaths are unrelated but part of an ongoing pattern. They suspect it is a continuation of an increasing mortality event and are trying to ...

A tourist visiting the Isles of Scilly said seeing the humpback whale was like something from a dream A humpback whale in the Isles of Scilly "put on a show" for visitors, leaving them in awe.

PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Humpback whale that washed ashore in Kitty Hawk has necropsy before beach clean up Necropsy performed on whale that washed up on Kitty Hawk shore "There was a gap in the ...

Meet Wall-E, Dumpling, Polaris, Peter Rabbit, and Hopscotch. They are five of the 20 Atlantic right whales recently named by scientists at the New England Aquarium as part of an annual tradition ...

A humpback whale was spotted leaping from the water off the Sussex coast. Kitty Dale spotted the whale from Hastings seafront yesterday, January 3. She said: "I’d just had lunch at the White ...

Director Thea Taylor said on Saturday, January 4: “We can confirm that the whale spotted off Hastings yesterday was a humpback whale. Sightings of humpback whales off Sussex are rare, with only one or ...