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

Humpback whale populations have been increasing throughout many of their ranges since a final moratorium on commercial whaling was established in 1985 by the International Whaling Commission, NOAA ...

Moments later, she exclaims, "Here we go," and a humpback whale lunges out of the water with its mouth open, gulping down a school of fish. "No freaking way," Munro-Kennedy says, while onlookers ...

Boaters off the New Hampshire coast have a whale of a tail to tell after a humpback whale slammed into ... with the 21-foot ...

Adult humpback whale with a mouth entanglement representing light-colored, moderate gauge (~ 9/16” to 5/8”) , non-buoyant line. Line trails aft to form a bridle with line twisting ...

Photo from the journal Marine Mammal Science A humpback whale was seen using an “unusual ... the rocky shoreline and then holding its mouth open to catch the fish as they jump in.

We saw a humpback whale we had nicknamed “Conger” hanging vertically, almost stationary, jaws wide open at the surface. We could see right into the roof of his mouth and his wing-like pectoral ...

For instance, humpback whales are filter feeders, meaning they have hundreds of plates of baleen in their mouth instead of teeth. 'But baleen whales do grow teeth in the womb. Those teeth will be ...

While humpback whale populations are on the rise, they still face numerous threats. Climate change, ocean noise pollution, and entanglement in fishing gear continue to jeopardize their recovery.

Marine life researchers hope samples taken from a young humpback whale whose body washed ashore at Rexhame Beach in Marshfield on Thursday will offer more information into her cause of death.