A total of 429 volunteers gathered data from the shores of Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Molokaʻi and Hawai‘i islands during the Hawaiian ...

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

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

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

Watch how staff from the Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in Hawaii disentangled a humpback whale from fishing gear.

As few as 7% of male humpback whales in the south Pacific Ocean sire ... according to a study published Jan. 8 in the Royal Society Open Science. Their analysis — which involved examining ...

What is a whale’s spout made of? One theory: the spout is condensed vapor from the whale’s moist breath. But in the tropics, where breath does not condense, the whale’s spout is just as ...

Footage of humpback whales captured by drones has revealed how the animals manoeuvre their whole bodies when they feed. As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale ...

A tourist visiting the Isles of Scilly said seeing the humpback whale was like something from a dream A humpback whale in the Isles of Scilly "put on a show" for visitors, leaving them in awe.

“The death of any calf in the Southern Resident killer whale population is a tremendous ... a wildlife biologist with NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center, said Thursday that she may ...

PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Humpback whale that washed ashore in Kitty Hawk has necropsy before beach clean up Necropsy performed on whale that washed up on Kitty Hawk shore "There was a gap in the ...

Meet Wall-E, Dumpling, Polaris, Peter Rabbit, and Hopscotch. They are five of the 20 Atlantic right whales recently named by scientists at the New England Aquarium as part of an annual tradition ...