Aerial drone footage shows the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) missing its iconic lobed fluke, which is responsible for propulsion while swimming. Taken by Eric Guth under NMFS permit # 24359 ...

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 ...

MIAMI - "A massive explosion of water," that's how a fisherman described video he shot of a humpback whale breaching the water off Key Biscayne earlier this week. Ryan Preston was with a group of ...

There is no set timeline for when those results will come in. Since 2016, a rising number of humpback, minke, right and other whale species have died in increasing numbers along the Atlantic ...

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 ...

Trained responders at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary undertook the life-saving detangling operations for the whales Luke Chinman is an editorial intern at PEOPLE.

The Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) is among the poorest understood oceanic mammals. There is a lack of historical and present-day information about population size, habitats ...

KITTY HAWK, N.C. — Following the discovery of a humpback ... whale that washed ashore in Kitty Hawk determined the animal came from the Caribbean Sea. The report also showed the whale had no ...

The deceased female juvenile humpback whale was 27.5 feet in length and weighed roughly 19,000 pounds. There was no obvious cause of death, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Network.