Most male humpback whales in a Pacific Ocean population do not have offspring — and bad singing might be to blame, new research reveals. Scientists recently conducted a paternity analysis of a ...

This island-state recently appealed to out-of-season tourists with a campaign of 'odd jobs', but it's worth the journey at ...

A humpback whale cruised incognito alongside his vessel until its slick black body shot out of the ocean like a rocket before ...

In the study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the scientists attached cameras with multi-sensory tags to eight humpback whale calves off the coast of Sainte ...

We know that whale calves and mothers communicate with one another, but what are they trying to say? A new study has provided fresh insights into the vocalizations of young humpback whales ...

But then he captured the unexpected arrival of a humpback whale joining the hunt. “Holy moly,” Peter exclaims in the video footage as the whale rises out of the water in front of him and takes ...

Passengers on an Island Packers boat off Ventura recently spotted a rare white orca known as Frosty. On Sunday, the boat happened upon a group of six orcas, also called killer whales ...

An approximately 25-foot, deceased humpback whale washed ashore Tuesday on the western end of Napeague State Park in Amagansett, according to the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society. The Hampton ...

We are all familiar with the dolphins that live in the Shannon estuary, but as of last week a new resident has arrived - a humpback whale. The whale was first spotted by a passenger travelling on ...

It is now not unusual to see humpback whales on whale-watching trips off the south and west coast here. A new book, Wake of the Whale, documents the history of whaling in Ireland Humpback whale ...

Newborn humpback whales can measure more than 15 feet from nose to tail fluke and weigh as much as full-grown giraffes. But these hefty calves still need to pack on the pounds quickly to reach ...

Birth rates decline Studies document a 76.5% decline in mother-calf encounter rates in Hawaiʻi between 2013 and 2018, with birth rates declining by 80% from 2015 to 2016. In Southeast Alaskan ...