According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a necropsy revealed the whale may have suffered a ship ...

A young humpback whale that died, presumably, after it became trapped in a commercial mussel-farming line off Long Beach, Ca.

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 ...

Prior research has shown that groups of humpback whales migrate from cooler waters ... 15,000 kilometers off the eastern coast of Australia, in the Coral Sea. In this new study, the research ...

The humpback that washed up dead in Long Beach this week has been identified as NYC0393, a playful and spirited cetacean who had become familiar to whale watchers last summer for her acrobatic ...

There are five types of killer whale in Antarctica, but only three found in these waters, near the peninsula south of South ...

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Cetaceans—marine mammals that include dolphins, porpoises, and whales—are crucial to coastal ecology. Their presence fosters ...

UK wildlife watchers have been treated to an incredible spectacle in the first few weeks of this year as humpback whales make a splash in Britain's waters. The once-endangered whales have been ...

These animals don’t frequently wash up on Huntington Beach’s shores. Agencies are looking into the cause of death of the ...

Most male humpback whales in a Pacific Ocean population do ... an island about 750 miles east of Australia, according to a study published Jan. 8 in the Royal Society Open Science.