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

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A young humpback whale wrapped in fishing net beached in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, stoking calls for fishermen to avoid abandoning ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In the frigid waters of Antarctica, humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) showcased a breathtaking example of nature's ingenuity - a bubble net in the form of a Fibonacci spiral. This is a ...

The humpback whales‘ bubble net perfectly mirrored this geometric shape, adding an element of mathematical beauty to their feeding strategy . Whales swim in a spiral to create a bubble net to trap ...

"While not confirmed, one theory is the whales that stop off here over the winter are juveniles or non-breeding adults, feeding-up on shoals of fish," the trust added. "Humpback whales are ...

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 ...

A humpback whale was spotted leaping from the water off the Sussex coast. Kitty Dale spotted the whale from Hastings seafront yesterday, January 3. She said: "I’d just had lunch at the White ...

Director Thea Taylor said on Saturday, January 4: “We can confirm that the whale spotted off Hastings yesterday was a humpback whale. Sightings of humpback whales off Sussex are rare, with only one or ...