A small international team of marine mammal scientists has found evidence that just 7% of the male humpback whales residing ...

The young whale was a popular humpback who put on shows for whale watchers this summer — once tail throwing directly beneath ...

In an astonishing 20-minute exchange between researchers and a humpback whale named Twain, science has crossed an ...

By recording the whales for years, researchers discovered new information about their weight changes and birth rates.

Humpback whale populations have been increasing throughout many of their ranges since a final moratorium on commercial whaling was established in 1985 by the International Whaling Commission, NOAA ...

A young humpback whale washed ashore in Long Beach on Monday morning — with authorities now working to determine why it died, according to police. “Early this morning, a juvenile humpback ...

State officials were notified Friday morning of a newborn humpback whale calf that was found dead on a beach in Kihei.

A slight smell and tire tracks in the sand are all that remain on the beach following the necropsy of a 27-foot-long, at least 19,000-pound juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore.

KITTY HAWK, N.C. — Experts who conducted a necropsy on a juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore Friday in Kitty Hawk said there were some unusual findings, but full results could take a ...

Federal and state investigators are examining the death of a juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore Monday morning in Long Beach. Long Beach police reported the whale was found dead on the ...

Scientists used drones to record hundreds of humpback whales in the Pacific ... pregnant females off Alaska — where the whales feed — gained size much faster than new mothers, putting on ...

Namely, scientists documented dramatic changes in the size of the mothers and calves ... studies investigating the energetic demands on humpback whales,” Lars Bejder, one of the study authors ...