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 ...

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

Moments later, she exclaims, "Here we go," and a humpback whale lunges out of the water with its mouth open, gulping down a school of fish. "No freaking way," Munro-Kennedy says, while onlookers ...

Adult humpback whale with a mouth entanglement representing light-colored, moderate gauge (~ 9/16” to 5/8”) , non-buoyant line. Line trails aft to form a bridle with line twisting ...

We saw a humpback whale we had nicknamed “Conger” hanging vertically, almost stationary, jaws wide open at the surface. We could see right into the roof of his mouth and his wing-like pectoral ...

For instance, humpback whales are filter feeders, meaning they have hundreds of plates of baleen in their mouth instead of teeth. 'But baleen whales do grow teeth in the womb. Those teeth will be ...