A man from Cornwall captured footage of a whale leaping from the sea off the coast of Cornwall in an incredible display. The ...

A few weeks ago, Greenland was quietly getting on with winter, as the territory slid deeper into the darkness that envelops the world’s northerly reaches at this time of year. But President-elect ...

As few as 7% of male humpback whales in the south Pacific Ocean sire offspring, according to a new study. Photo from Amy Humphries, UnSplash Most male humpback whales in a Pacific Ocean population ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ship is small enough to navigate through the glacial Lemaire Channel populated by 30-tonne humpback whales and leading to islands that are home to huge penguin rookeries, elephant seals and ...

Staff from several state and federal agencies responded following the discovery of a dead humpback whale calf on the shore near Kīhei, Maui. The Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources ...

The death toll continues to rise amongst whales along Southern New England coastlines. On Wednesday, a juvenile humpback whale was stranded along Richmond Pond Beach in Westport. "This is the 13th ...

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 ...

North Atlantic right whales were subject to "Yankee whaling," which ended around 1910, he said. Given the animals' slow rate of reproduction, the small number of whales that weren't hunted were ...