Humpback whales are well known for providing stunning marine spectacles, from breaching out of the water to singing haunting and melodic songs. These ocean giants are part of a group of baleen ...

An accomplished group of scientists believes humans could eventually communicate with aliens after they had an unprecedented interaction with a whale in Alaska. The 20-minute exchange between ...

Scientists are offering the everyman an opportunity to witness a breathtaking sight that up until recently had never been seen by human eyes: a humpback whale giving birth. The extremely rare ...

The South American tapir has finally resurfaced in the Atlantic forest. Researchers were in ... spotted for the first ever time in broad daylight. The humpback anglerfish is usually down in ...

And what they've seen can be surprising and delightful — like humpback whales exfoliating themselves on the shallow ocean floor. The new discovery reveals how innovative deployment of more ...

Advertising “That whale is definitely an emblem, a totem for the crisis,” he said of the humpback. “The whales are swimming through a forest of rope. The whales are where the fishermen are ...

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When local fishermen were walking through a mangrove forest in Brazil, they discovered something that shouldn't be there: the carcass of a humpback whale. The baby whale was likely lost at sea and ...

Humpback whales are famously curious and, at times, playful around boats. The accompanying footage shows Erica Sackrison of Gone Whale Watching San Diego interacting with an especially inquisitive ...

A humpback whale, like this one seen off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, might breach as it herds a school of fish. Brothers Wyatt and Colin Yager recently witnessed evidence of this off the coast of ...

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 ...

A male humpback whale made one of the longest and most unusual migrations on record for the species, an anomaly scientists say might be linked to climate change. The whale was first sighted in ...