Some unusual stomach contents, including black sand and scallop shells, indicate the whale may have come from further south. Mase said it is not unusual for juvenile humpback whales to become ...

Plastic sheeting was found in the stomach of the whale A sperm whale washed up on a beach died with plastic sheeting in its stomach, a post-mortem examination has found. The animal was first ...

Their analysis — which involved examining genetic data and 25 years’ worth of photos — revealed that just 7% of male humpbacks showed evidence of having sired offspring. Further, males who sired at ...

Firebolt was a two-year-old humpback whale, and the second of her species to wash up dead on a Massachusetts beach this month.

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 couple of months to be ...