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

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century.

The humpback that washed up dead in Long Beach ... including some spectacular tail flips in the shadow of the city skyline. “There were a few trips where it would just be tail throwing ...

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 People’s Choice winner in Oak Bay’s annual arts event is a whale of a tale featuring a work created by a Greater Victoria ...

COURTESY ED LYMAN /NOAA Trained responder Maria Harvey works to entangle a humpback whale. Federal wildlife officials say two humpback whales were recently freed of life-threatening entanglements in ...

A wildlife charity has said the number of whale sightings off the Cornish coast has "gone through the roof" in the last few ...

Trained responders at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary undertook the life-saving detangling ...

Some even slap their tails to scare the fish, before the group launches a coordinated attack, swimming upward and scooping the ball into their mouths. Iceland and Greenland see more humpback whale ...

Two humpback whales were rescued in separate incidents by disentangling them from lines in waters off Maui at the Hawaiian ...