Each year in June and July, humpback whales will pass New Zealand as they migrate north from Antarctica to the warmer waters of Tonga to mate, give birth and nurse their calves. They will stay ...

Timo Dersch had a close call with a humpback whale while freediving with orcas in the waters surrounding Norway ...

A new study led by McGill University researchers indicates that humpback whales in the southeastern Pacific combine real-time ...

After samples were collected, the whale was buried since it was "unable to be towed back to" the beach due to shallow water.

And a humpback whale that died after coming ashore near Thurso, in Caithness, in 2019 may have become entangled in fishing gear thousands of miles away. Scientists who examined the carcass said it ...

Efforts to tow a dead humpback whale out of the Indian River Bay were unsuccessful Wednesday. "The boat was not large enough to be able to handle that kind of weight," said Marine Education ...